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During the following Kamakura period, capital punishment was widely used and methods of execution became increasingly cruel, and included burning, boiling and crucifixion, among many others. During the Muromachi period, even harsher methods of execution came into use, such as upside-down crucifixion, impalement by spear, sawing, and dismemberment with oxen or carts. The method of hanging is the long drop, causing a quick death by neck fracture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..._punishment_in_Japan | |||
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Possibly the hangman offered a little levity at the end, to lighten the mood. . . | |||
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Possibly the hangman offered a little levity at the end, to lighten the mood. That right there IS funny!! A man is still only as good as his word | |||
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From the OP's link "Japan hangs several people in an average year but keeps the executions highly secretive." | |||
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There is something satisfying about the fact that they languished on death row for 23 years then the guards come in yesterday morning with "Surprise! This is the day! Don't dawdle over breakfast!" CMSGT USAF (Retired) Chief of Police (Retired) | |||
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Japanese Prison Guard: "I have good news and bad news." Cult Killers: "What's the good news?" JPG: "You're getting out of prison today!" CK: "Then what's the bad news?" JPG: "You'll be leaving in bodybags." . | |||
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 One of those WTF monent.  | |||
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Six more today: “TOKYO (AP) — The last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who remained on death row were executed Thursday for a series of crimes in the 1990s including a sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways that killed 13 people. … The executions were announced only after they had happened, as is the practice in Japan…” https://apnews.com/b6389f7d5a9a47268d19958a5466463e The after-the-fact announcement keeps the protesters off balance. A good plan. Serious about crackers | |||
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Japan has this down to a science, unsurprisingly. I thought the 3 buttons that control the trapdoor, with only one that actually works was interesting, very similar to giving blanks and live rounds to a firing squad:  Guards stand in the next room and press three buttons to make the trapdoor open  None of the men will know who actually carried out the execution Japan's death chambers: Inside the secretive world where prisoners are executed with brutal efficiency | |||
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why is it "brutal efficiency"? instead of just "efficiency"? lining up one by one and taking care of business has nothing brutal about it. just another application of the Deming Management Method. they probably have some excellent quality control charts... NRA Life Member - "Fear God and Dreadnaught" | |||
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Gallows humor. | |||
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Yes but quality customer service surveys probably doesn't reveal much CMSGT USAF (Retired) Chief of Police (Retired) | |||
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I'll bet that was 23 very unpleasant years for them. I hope it was. RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | |||
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ROR!!! ___________________________ "I Get It Now" Beth Greene | |||
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The next to be hung said "Shut yer trap." Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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The 3 executioners don't get the pleasure of watching? | |||
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Bon Mot, sir! The gravity of the situation was immediately apparent. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre. | |||
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Japan makes a case that Multi-culturalism is inferior to mono-culturalism. | |||
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Hanging has its problems. The rope used must have no give to it. In the past ropes were hung from heavy weights for months and years. Computing the condemn’s weight, length of drop and placement of the knot require calculations. Washington State found a way out of hanging when a killer pigged out on junk food, blew up his weight then appealed claiming that there was a risk that he’d be decapitated when hung. Nobody bothered to do the math. A 5’ dropmwould have been enough. http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hanging2.html http://www.gravemattersblog.co...hematics-of-Hanging- https://thelede.blogs.nytimes....fine-art-of-hanging/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Table_of_Drops “ The work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious and dull. | |||
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Better late than never, justice was served. | |||
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