Japanese Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama said he wanted to consider more "tranquil" methods of execution.What next, the Headmaster of Education looking at testing make-believe subjects?
Japan generally executes several convicts a year, always by hanging. That's old school, going back to their criminal code. Yeah, code, not laws. It's probably etched in stone on a mountainside.
"A square part of the floor opens up and they fall with a thud," he said. "I honestly wonder if there isn't a more tranquil way of doing this."
Maybe you might want to put some pillows under there so they don't get hurt. And killed.
It was not clear what other methods he was considering, which is stranger when you look at his comments from September, when he suggested those sentenced to death should be executed automatically, without having the penalty approved by the justice minister as is current practice. It then comes as no shock that he would like to hear the opinions of those opposed to the death penalty. What a people pleaser.
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