Corrections/nuances: Portugal did abolish the death penalty in the 1800s. It also abolished the death penalty in 1976 because it had been reinstated for military purposes during WW1. Deathpenaltyinfo.org recognizes 1976 as the formal date. The point of that segment, and I will be clearer about assumptions/definitions on screen in future videos for sure so that’s my bad, is that a new constitution after the fall of an authoritarian leader has been associated with the formal abolition of the death penalty. That happened after Salazar with the new constitution. Japan also signed a new constitution, but with no formal abolition. Researchers found (source in description) that lynching predicts modern executions, but when you account for slavery - lynching does not, but slavery does. There’s a lot of variance in these studies, and the level that injustices in the past have an impact on today is not something I, a “professional” youtuber in a bedroom, am going to be able to explain well. Adverbs like “intimately” do not help because that’s vague and unclear writing. I do think this can all be true (would like to hear other’s thoughts) while it also still being important to point out that this makes the US different from Japan. As of right now, I don’t know how I stand on the death penalty. My instinctual feeling when someone kills 31 people by burning them alive like I mention at the end is yes. As it would be if my family was brutally murdered by someone. That being said, the non zero probability, especially in Japan with its high prosecution rate, makes the risk quite uncomfortable that I start thinking - better not. But then I can think that, that makes me some moral saint - that I would not take that chance with the death penalty - but I and the majority of the world would take that chance with locking someone in a cell for extended periods of time. So I’m not sure my morality is consistent. Long story short, I don’t really know.
Discrimination in capital punishment was explicitly written in many states’ laws during slavery. Black people - (whether slaves or not) - faced the death penalty for crimes that were not even be eligible for death if committed by a white person.
Oh, the poor, misunderstood criminals! How utterly tragic that they are deprived of the luxury of a handy calendar reminder for their impending execution. Who could bear the heartache of such an oversight? Truly, Japanese society’s blatant disregard for their need to meticulously plan such significant life events is beyond comprehension. It’s not as if these convicts took the effort to book an appointment with their victims, thoughtfully ensuring they were fully aware of the exact date and time they’d be brutally slaughtered. "Excuse me, would next Tuesday at 3 PM suit you for your untimely demise?" Really, imagine the shock and horror these CONVICTS must endure, facing their end without a day marked in their otherwise busy calendars. How inhumane to rob them of the opportunity to prepare like it's a dentist appointment. Truly, it's society that has failed them, not the other way around. Japanese laws, shockingly, don't bend over backwards to pamper and coddle criminals the way Western legal systems do. Imagine that, a legal system that prioritizes actual justice over the comfort of those who have wreaked havoc on innocent lives. Heaven forbid! What a monstrous concept, that the focus should be on the victims who will never see another tomorrow, rather than on the sensitivities of those who brought about their untimely end. So, spare me the melodramatic sob stories and crocodile tears. Don’t project your self-righteous, virtue-signaling nonsense onto other countries that don’t coddle convicts. If only you could channel all this empathetic energy into supporting victims rather than lionizing those who wronged them. But no, please, do go on about the grave injustice of not catering to the meticulous schedules of those who have caused unimaginable suffering. After all, it’s far more important to maintain the pristine image of moral superiority, isn’t it?
@@jax5683 You’re arguing against the death penalty, but here I was pointing out that if we have it, convicts shouldn’t get a scheduled execution date. After all, why should they know when it’s coming? Their victims certainly didn’t get a courteous heads-up.
@@Samira_m84Aww how dare they not give a date? Man has some busy schedules. Can you even imagine just going about your day and suddenly it's your day? Can't be the victims of the perpetrator. Definitely!
what the heck is that death rooom contraption, multiple rooms, a spinning religion panel, a moral dilemma button, feels like an escape room straight out of zero escape
They have the delayed multi buttons because executions are seen as an unclean act that would taint the soul so to keep from making someone become unclean spiritually they make it ambiguous as to who did it
I assume that the religious statue panel didn't literally rotate, it was probably just that way for making the animation look nice. A staff member would probably place the appropriate figure in the altar earlier that morning based on what religion was on file for the prisoner. To change the statue, they'd probably remove the statue and get the other statue from a storage cupboard.
@@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74 It is a common feature in a lot of execution methods. Firings often had a blank or dummy round handed out amid the live cartridges so that each shooter could think that might not have fired a fatal shot.
@@andrewweitzman4006 yes but this is especially important for Shinto as becoming unclean is a pretty bad thing to become societal. It wasnt until the meji restoration that the caste system involving Shinto spirituality was actually being reformed away. Executioners, grave diggers, butchers, fishermen, and trash collectors, other essentials, beggars criminals, and the descendants of those people were burakumin and werent consider people even into the modern era, but the government has been trying to undo those harmful traditions since the meji restoration, but traditionalist do make that pretty difficult.
Actually, those 7 people probably expected a peaceful death at an old age, surrounded by their children and grandchildren. They probably didn't live in fear of a violent death, knowing that it could happen any day.
From time immemorial societies have removed those they know are a serious danger, it's truly astonishing how many people today can be deluded into wanting to keep them around in any capacity. How many lives would be saved if judges were tried as accessories to any crimes the killers they let out commit in the future?
Stop wasting time talking about unimportant things (the one that k'd 7) and focus on what matters: the innocent who are wrongly convicted. Japan's "justice system" is more biased and corrupt than the yank one, with MANY innocents wrongly convicted and imprisoned. If you ignorantly believe "innocent people are never convicted", then you aren't qualified to talk about this.
Utah, Idaho, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Oklahoma still allow the firing squad as a backup method over lethal injection. The most recent execution by firing squad was 2010 in Utah.
@@BrilliantDesignOnline 😂🤔 They could always use an all tile room. Then you can just hose it all down. You'd have to use pistol calibers though. That way it doesn't overpenetrate and then damage the room.
in russia they put the death penelty on hold changed it to life (until death ) in prison , and you dont want to be there . the day they changed the law many prisoners commited suicide .they would have rather been hanged than serve life in prison.
7:19 Lethal injections also have the highest rate of botchery out of all the methods. The idea of being conscious and in in excruciating pain whilst unable to move or give away any signals of my suffering is something truly terrifying.
What in the lethal injection would cause pain? All that happens is serum K+ increases until myocardial repolarization is no longer possible. I haven't truly researched the topic, but I'm curious to know where your fear comes from?
@cam609lee The part that kills you is painful, and if the parts that put you to sleep and numb you aren't enough, or lacking in general, you end up in agony but unable to move as the muscle relaxants tend to work.
@@cam609lee Lethal Injection is a multi-step process where they first sedate the prisoner, then give them a numbing serum, and then finally the lethal injection. The issue arises when either of the previous two are not done properly. This can leave the victim aware of what is happening, and the lethal injection is not painless. There is at least one account from a survivor of a botched injection. He said it was as if liquid fire was being put into his veins and was being chocked at the same time.
@@cam609lee The whole issue with lethal injections is that companies aren't willing to sell the desired chemicals to produce the injection and that many medical practitioners aren't willing to be the ones to administer it. As such, improvisation takes place, substitute ingredients are found that don't tick all of the requirements, personal without all the needed skills gets put in charge.
That story about the arson attack is so bizarre too - it happened at Kyoto Animation’s main studio (A Silent Voice, Haruhi Suzumiya, K-ON!) and took place because the perpetrator believed his submission to an animation contest they ran plagiarized his work (it obviously didn’t). Absolutely wild loss
i was just thinking about what a horrible way to die this death penalty is when he said about people being burned to death, makes you think twice, although i still think death penalty should be abolished - innocent people have been executed. i'm an animator too by the way, retired.
@flxible431 I agree but I feel like more diverse opinions in the comments would be a benefit. Being from the US, I am more interested in what Japanese people think.
You basically answered your own question about Japan's homicide rate being low. Japan is almost entirely Japanese. That is why the homicide rate and violent crime rate is much lower. Making a country more "diverse" changes that. There is more conflict (from all sides) and more crime. That's just a fact.
The amount of people who do not understand why this is evil is saddening. Did people not hear how easy it is to be falsely convicted it is from the video? Did they not hear about the people falsely put on death's row? The cop who withheld an innocent's person alibi for years, condemning him to a tortorous existence and ever-present threat of death? Do people not understand the concept of false imprisonment? Do people not understand how important it is to humanely treat criminals? I'm always reminded of the following quote whith situations like this: “A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky In my experience, it is one of the most important ones to understand. Most important to learn and practice.
Bruh, problems in judicial and police systems are another matter. They should be considered in light of a DP policy in a given place to be sure, but the system here looked at, in isolation is NOT inherently brutal nor evil.
Government incompetence and corruption is the best argument against the death penalty. Too many innocent people are exonerated after decades in prison or facing and fighting the death penalty in court (which actually makes the death penalty more expensive for taxpayers than keeping someone alive and in prison for the rest of their lives)
@@DIVERSERNAMEthere is no moral conflict. The system, not people decides who dies, absolves all of the guilt of killing the inmate, as it was he who did it to himself. Boom done, argument over. Honestly the “moral argument” is the worst one to make especially in our immoral society lmao, just tell people it costs money and they’ll hop on board with you.
How is this a problem with the penalty and not the judicial system? Seems like the examples you're giving are ones where innocent people were sentenced. That's pretty flawed.
I imagine the reason the death penalty was abolished in those countries with authoritarian regimes was because they massively abused it; so when the regime was ousted, the people were never willing to take that risk again. Of course this ousting never fully happened in Japan, and you could argue the country is to this day quite authoritarian in many ways. The question is more complicated in countries that have always been fairly democratic: there, I feel, it becomes more a question of conservatives against progressives; which is shown nicely in the US too.
@@Marconius6 Yeah, although here in the States, it's a bit more complicated. While it is largely a conservative vs liberal thing, it isn't a universal one, as there are a lot of conservatives, generally the ones with libertarian tendencies who do oppose the death penalty on principle, plus other conservatives who want it narrowed, even if not in favor of abolition. Our conservatism has always had and does have a significant skepticism toward government power so the lines on the right often get blurred on this issue. It did use to be politically toxic to oppose it(big reason why Bush, Sr. won in '88) but the country is much more libertarian on criminal justice than it used to be and that's shown on the right too.
Is it possible that the low crime rate in Japan is DUE to the fear of death penalty? And the high shooting and stabbing rates in USA and UK respectively are DUE to the lack of Death penalty? What are your thoughts on that?
@@mikepalmer1971 To get to the death row in Japan (and pretty much anywhere else) you have to do something so big and messed up the chances you got there by accident are pretty much non-existent.
@@El_Loto_Azúl there were 2 separate examples in the video of that happening. And in the US, according to death penalty info, for every 8.3 executions, one person is exonerated afterwards
@@diogorodrigues747they only do that so they don’t have to hold themselves up to the standards of a “developed” country. By all metrics they are. It’s just more advantageous to them to say they are still a “developing” country.
the US did the kill switch guilt thing too but it was a firing squad and only like one or two have real rounds vs blanks so nobody has to know they killed someone - fun fact thats STILL legal in some states
I am more concerned with Japans juridical system and their unusually high conviction rate than I am concerned with them having death penalty. Theoretically the tax payers should not be burdened with the life support of people that can never safely be let into society. My only problem with capital punishment is a distrust in the juridical system and potential tyranny that can exploit it, so from this perspective I would rather see an overhaul of Japans archaic court system than a complete abandonment of capital punishment.
@@MajinOthinus The whole justice process is in strong need of reform pretty much everywhere. Ideally I’d like that sorted out to minimise false convictions at any level. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely my country will ever reform its system the way it should, let alone bring back the death penalty.
@@MajinOthinusexcept there’s a minuscule amount of cases in which evidence is doctored and an overwhelming majority of false convictions are due to pure incompetence.
Controversial opinion: I don't think the Death Penalty is bad, its just been done badly, especially with our most recent examples being in the US, where everything that can be done wrong, will be done wrong.
There is no way to do it well, though, unless you consider the possibility of the executed actually having been innocent as acceptable, you're gonna have to put in so many checks that keeping someone imprisoned for life ends up way cheaper (with the added benefit of still being able to release them if you made a mistake). This is ALREADY the case in the us, death penalty DOES cost more, and STILL its not enough checks cuz innocent ppl have been executed there before. It just doesn't work
the idea that "two of the kill switches dont work" is probably a lie. it's probably a 3-button AND switch that only trips when all three of the buttons are depressed, and the story of two of them not working is circulated to give people an out, emotionally. "my button probably didn't kill him"
Why are you talking about “black lynchings” in regard to the U.S. death penalty? The U.S. death penalty is not “intimately connected with its history of racial discrimination and enslavement”. If that were the case, then everything would be connected to it and no state in the U.S. would still have the death penalty. That statement smacks of critical race theory, where everything is about race in the U.S. What have they done to our youth in our classrooms? Why would you even bring that up? Isn’t that leading to the notion that if you are for the death penalty in the U.S., then you are racist…if they are “intimately connected” as you say? It’s a legitimate question with a legitimate concern. This isn’t just about your statement even if it were partially true, it’s your entire approach to it. EVERY human being on this entire planet has an ancestors who were slaves, every single one of us. Even isolated tribes that have “never” been in contact with other human beings? Yes, of course. The entire world’s history of slavery is another topic all together. That leaves me with only two questions: 1. How is the death penalty in the U.S. “intimately connected” with “it’s history of racial discrimination and enslavement”? 2. How is the execution carried out? You came close, but never explained it. You skipped it after the three switch description. Thanks, now I almost know.
well, he says there is a trapdoor connected to one of the three switches, and earlier in the video, there is an image with the trapdoor open... as for everything else, you're absolutely correct, people really like to point at maps and say "There is an increase in the popularity of [blank] in the Bible Belt, that means it's an evil practice only done by racists!!"
Maybe not nationwide, but the death penalty (well the prison system in general) in specifically the Deep South was absolutely connected to racial discrimination. These are the same places that kept slavery going for like 80 years after the Civil War.
- "The first recorded execution in the new colonies was that of Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608. Kendall was executed for being a spy for Spain." - "In 1619, the first captive Africans were brought via Dutch slave ship to Point Comfort (today Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia), thirty miles downstream from Jamestown, Virginia. They had been kidnapped by Portuguese slave traders." The first execution in America was carried out on a white man 11 years before the first African slaves had even arrived on North American soil. How droll. Thank you for commenting, it was bothering me too.
I honestly love your maner off explaining everything so punctual and interesting. Good job keep up the good work and amazing visual to start the vid as usual!
@@Dummkopf420 he's immediately presenting the death penalty as evil. He's drawn a pretty spurious connection between execution in the US and slavery, to imply execution as policy is racist. The purpose of this video isnt to inform, its to persuade you that the death penalty is wrong.
@@SessmaruKusanagiGamingI had the same takeaway as Christopher. The map he used and how he used it was very misleading. Him being against the death penalty is fine because it’s his opinion; but people need to realize it’s an opinion and there are some strong biases present. I’m not for or against the death penalty so I’m not even necessarily disagreeing with the premise of the video; but to say it was anything but pretty heavily biased would be incorrect.
I am against the death penalty, but if I had to choose between terrible chemical injections and your neck getting instantly snapped, I'd go for former. From Japan Times: _The method of hanging is the long drop, causing instant unconsciousness and rapid death by neck fracture._
I do understand you emotionally, but I’d rather you paid attention to the differences between generosity and human rights. The former is random feeling whereas the latter is a systematic theory that depends on deductive reasoning. The most typical example of deductive reasoning is math. If x and y are lines which are parallel, then they don’t cross. Here, you can’t ask why because it is something called an axiom. In deductive logic, you can prove many properties of lines or triangles but the absence of crossing points. This is true to human rights, too. Axiom; you have rights which can’t be alienated from you. See? Perhaps, you may think like this; then let’s change the axiom! Good news. It’s already tried by some enthusiastic people, namely Hitler, Stalin,Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping, and Meiji government (see the first article of their constitution. It was an alternative axiom). Do you think it sounds like religion? Surprisingly you’re right. Human rights is religion by its definition according to Harari, the author of Sapience, which I think is very interesting and provocative.
Norway didn't have a death penalty but they allowed it only for Quisling and some other traitors in the aftermath of WW2. It wasn't fully abolished until 1979 where it was technically legal for the military to execute people in some cases, but the last execution was in 1948 in the before mentioned aftermath of WW2. I think the conversation for allowing it again reopened to potentially execute Anders Behring Breivik, a man who massacred 77 people and detonated a bomb in the Norwegian capital in 2011. The fact that he is still alive is wild, but im also slightly glad that our state didn't abandon their morals for the sake of one man. (Only slightly glad, im pretty upset for the most part ofc. Very upset he lives but kinda glad our state kept their integrity, if that makes sense)
@@FredrikSkievan it would be unreasonable to punish a criminal using a law introduced after the crime because of the precedent that would set. Because the death penalty was not on the books when he did it it's not an option, but if there is public support you can introduce it for the next guy. Medical assistance in dieing for prisoners is also a thing that's been requested more and more as it gets rolled out in more and more countries. I support MAID and for 99% of prisoners who might want this the main reason they would be denied is spite. Unless they did something really fucked up and a case can be made of it being in the public interest for them to suffer more there really is no good reason to deny them. There's maybe a 1% wrongly convicted who would opt for that because they can't take it but even in that case it entails a reduction of that persons suffering
@@Bobo-ox7fj It might as well be legislation already, it's absolutely ridiculous to expect a society to pay taxes to support the continued existence of a man whose only contribution to it was the destruction of innocent lives
@@G5rry Are you kidding me? People use this as an expression. This has has nothing to do with "erm, you're wrong". Are you a linguist? Do you know the history of commonly used expressions? If you talked to people, you would probably hear people use this exact same expression. Neither of these are wrong. You are not an authority on commonly used phrases. Once you show me your linguistic degree and not some self proclaimed idea in a comment section, maybe i can start listening to you.
@@starrynight_reverie he's right, though, regardless of whether you like that. From Wikipedia: 'Colloquial misuse of the phrase "begs the question" also occurs with an entirely dissimilar sense in place of "prompts a question" or "raises a question".'
I am baffled by people who think life in prison is less of a punishment than the death penalty. If given the choice I would choose to die over spending life in prison.
And what if some new evidence emerges years or decades later? There may be zero doubt during the trial today, but prosecutors and the jury cannot know everything.
You seem to have made a false affirmation at 3:38 when you said that Portugal's New State Regime had death penalty, well it did not, because the death penalty was abolished in 1852 for political crimes, 1867 for civil crimes and 1911 for military crimes. Love your videos btw. Keep it up!
I think it’s more nuanced than both our sides. The 1976 constitution formally abolished the death penalty entirely. In military context it was still permitted, although sparingly I imagine, in the 1900s
5:02 this system in Japan clearly shows us that our system of jury trials in the West, with 12 inexperienced jurors, a judge and defence and prosecution lawyers, is fundamentally flawed, as opposed to the Japanese system of at least 6 experienced judges on the bench - the only exception in the West is in the US Supreme Court
That's a common setup in civil law countries. There's no "jury" trial like in English speaking countries but you can have lay judges that are regular citizens that arbitrate alongside a set of career judges. This is usually only for very high profile crimes since it is quite the setup to have multiple professional judges for one trial.
@@Arkiasis This is the very reason why death penalty cases must only be tried in milltary courts under milltary law, even if the accused is a civilian and must only be held in milltary custody and the sentence of death must only be carried out by the milltary - the civilian court system is simply not sufficiently competent to handle far more serious cases for which there must be a death penalty applied and in force
@@Arkiasis jury trials came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066. It was a carbon copy of the middle ages French Judicial system (jury is a French word), which itself was inspired by the Roman judicial system. To this day you have jury trials in France for murder cases. Jury trial is an excellent system to ensure you don't have a class of citizens that capture the judicial system. At least there is a counterbalance with a jury.
Jury trials are to protect the citizens. They act as a review board for what the government does. Sorry you don’t have it in the Netherlands. Tho it’s govt. is better than most.
@@PakkaponPhongtawee don't be fooled, they have similar rates of crime, but the only ones being prosecuted are the ones the detectives are almost 100% sure. There are many other petty crimes and SAs (Chikan) that are not prosecuted.
@@PrograError"they have similar rates of crime" yeah and they view way more things as crime 😅 Meaning most crimes in Japan would not be crime in us, meaning there less serious crime. They also don't have school shootings and guns all over the place. A child can safely go shopping there an not fear being attack. Think that speaks for itself. Smiler rates, not same crime
@@PrograError It isn't about being fooled, criome in Japan is very different to the rest of the world. On the whole an individual is very safe in Japan.
This video is misleading because it only focuses on the "developed" world. AKA, a very small portion of the world. It tries to make it sound like the death penalty is wrong, even though it is the defacto for most countries. But for some reason the video ONLY blames the US and Japan.
One thing to notice is that some people in the US do not support death penalty because it is cheaper to keep someone in prison their entire life than to have a death penalty (legal fees) this also prevents executing someone who was innocent afterward so it's also a better decision who don't care about the convicted one.
You speak as if the death penalty is effective at reducing crime. The death penalty only serves to satisfy our instinctual emotions, and emotions shouldn't have a place in a court of law.
I don't feel that the death penalty is wholesale a bad thing. There are some people who are a threat to everyone around them and it's best not to risk them hurting others again. Some can be reformed, I do believe that, but some cannot. Reform comes willingly. However, I do find issue with how easy an innocent man could potentially get executed in the Japanese legal system. The U.S. is far from perfect, too, but I feel more confident in our systems.
Yeah, the problem with the Death Penalty is really a lack of faith in the justice system. I mean, if you go slaughtering people in the streets, you deserve the chair. But if someone else did it and you happened to look like him, not so much. Innocent people go to jail all the time, for a number of reasons. Some courts wield the Penalty responsibly, others don't.
The US prison system is really bad compared to systems from other developed nations. You should have a look into Scandinavian prison systems. The death penalty is wrong because you always kill innocent people. Then, there is a problem you are almost seeing yourself. You see rehabilitation as an important part of the systems and that some people can not be rehabilitated. But how do you know if a person can do it or not? Some people need maybe 15 years in prison to see their mistakes. You can't see inside a persons head. Then where is the line you draw between sentencing someone to death or just years in prison? What would you do to prevent innocent people being killed?
@@Y172-zp1qx Google "Lucy Letby" and then tell me that you would want to have this person rehabilitated and reintegrated into society. I am usually against the death penalty, but in some cases where there is 100% proof, yeah, go for it. E.g. the case mentioned in the video: They guy ran people over with his truck and then started stabbing people. I think in this case his guilt is proven beyond doubt.
@@Blightbuster That's due to an increase in forensics technology and the prevalence of our justice system's ability to still provide appeals to sentencing.
...the conviction rate is because almost nothing goes to trial unless they are certain of a conviction (and even then, as this video points out, that certainty of a conviction may be achieved by hiding evidence that would risk a certain conviction).
@@furripupauyes, what you exactly mentioned is exactly why which makes it another evil. It's good for Sakae Menda (the one mentioned in the vidro) that his retrial led to his release. But it doesn't change what he went through.
He did it again when he was talking about “lethal execution doesn’t lower crime because the states with them still have high crime” lmao like yeah, I wonder what the south has a lot of that the rest of the country doesn’t
@@TheOriginalDogLPInstead we have more sensible ones like „don‘t punish people and let repeat offenders out on the streets“ and „let people buy themselves out of prison“
@@electricant55a family member will always cry out that its wrong even if its objectively correct. Just look at all the media of families of criminal people that died when they did bad shit within a cop's gunrange. It does not matter if said criminal is caught on bodycam being a vile monster, his family will cry out and lie that he was a "sweet angel who didnt do no wrong!"
3:31 That is incorrect. There're many different ethnic groups in Japan (Ryukyuan, Ainu, Korean, Chinese, Wajin, etc.). Similarly to China, Japan's government would like everyone to think they are ethnically homogenous but that's factually false. Just as it is false that only one language is spoken in Japan. There's many different minority languages but with the exception of Ainu (officially recognized only in 2019) all minority languages are officially called "dialects of Japanese" by the government, like the entire Ryukyuan language family (11 languages), Tsugaru in Aomori, Hachijo of the southern isles or the Kagoshima language with all its dialects.
I have two rooms. One room has 1 red marble, 1 green marble, 1 blue marble, 1 yellow marble, and 1 white marble. The other room has 4 red marbles and 1 yellow marble. Would it be incorrect for me to say that the second room, in comparison to the first, is homogenous?
I think there are actually a few separate arguments happening now, and it's important to address them separately. 1. Ethnic Homogeneity of Japan: The first argument is whether Japan is actually ethnically homogeneous. There is indeed some state-driven narrative promoting the idea of a homogeneous Japan, and the reality does include ethnic minorities like the Ainu, Ryukyuans, residents of Korean or Chinese descent, etc. However, by any standard metric-such as the relative size and diversity of ethnic groups within the country-Japan remains one of the most ethnically homogeneous countries in the world. Comparing a random town in Japan to a room full of United Nations delegates would clearly illustrate this point. The second argument, which you rightfully bring up, I think is much more interesting. 2. Usefulness of Ethnic Homogeneity as a Comparative Measure: Whether ethnic homogeneity is a useful metric for country-to-country comparisons in the first place. Regarding the more nuanced point about South Africa, it’s true that ethnic homogeneity is not always a perfect unit of analysis. Country-to-country comparisons are inherently challenging and often imprecise. I'm sure there's some researchers that argue that heterogeneous societies may face more internal conflict due to a lack of cohesion, while other researchers would suggest the exact opposite: that homogeneous societies might experience more tension from marginalized minority groups. Both perspectives can be valid, but they depend heavily on the specific context. In the context of the death penalty between the US and Japan, I gave one reason for why I thought it was relevant. That's what I think is the actual problem. This video was too short, too brief, and did not do the topic justice with the amount of detail that could still be included. I would like to stand by the US being more ethnically heterogeneous than Japan as a meaningful observation, but it's not that meaningful if you spend less than 10 seconds talking about it.
@@hoogyoutube Yes, that's an incorrect statement. It would be correct to say it's more homogenous. And that is certainly true for the Japan and USA comparison.
The use of the word "Evil" in your title strongly suggests a moral imperative, perhaps revealing a strongly held personal opinion that is contrary to the ethos of objective documentary filmmaking. Or do you use this word just for the clicks?
My understanding is that they do have a Jury in Japan. Except that the jury just assumes the prosecutor did their due diligence and did not make any mistakes and got the correct personal
@@rons4620 It's not really a jury system in a sense that would be recognisable to common law systems. There's a panel of judges and a few of them happen to not be professionals. But lawyers have no capacity to challenge or scrutinise them, nor are they excluded from elements of the proceedings that could be prejudicial. It's just a judge panel that is typical of civil law systems, except they outsource a few of the members to the public.
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@@Asher-w6p Most likely After Effects, all motion graphics in this vid are quite easily made in AF with a little bit of learning and practice, none of Hoog's graphics are complex, but they're nice and minimalistic nonetheless
This is evil and i dont support it at all, but i do think that Japan, making it so the officers don't know who did it, is the most humane part of all. Knowing that you did that would probably affect you forever, and they didn't sign up for it, so it being vague is at least commendable.
The same process has been done for the most recent US firing squad execution, where out of five shooters, one had a less-lethal projectile. This was apparently done so that everyone would be unsure if they fired it or not. In Japan's case, its implemented with a little more nuance and more effective, I'd imagine, especially with the delay and being unable to see the trapdoor fall. I still wouldn't be sure if I'd want that forever "what if" hanging above my head though... so I'm on the fence on if this is actually helpful for these people or not. I suppose its case by case, but I don't think it works.
@@identitymatrixYou shouldn't know, you don't want your employees to be left with any trauma, that's why in execution squads only a few people had real bullets but they didn't know it.
Corrections/nuances:
Portugal did abolish the death penalty in the 1800s. It also abolished the death penalty in 1976 because it had been reinstated for military purposes during WW1. Deathpenaltyinfo.org recognizes 1976 as the formal date. The point of that segment, and I will be clearer about assumptions/definitions on screen in future videos for sure so that’s my bad, is that a new constitution after the fall of an authoritarian leader has been associated with the formal abolition of the death penalty. That happened after Salazar with the new constitution. Japan also signed a new constitution, but with no formal abolition.
Researchers found (source in description) that lynching predicts modern executions, but when you account for slavery - lynching does not, but slavery does. There’s a lot of variance in these studies, and the level that injustices in the past have an impact on today is not something I, a “professional” youtuber in a bedroom, am going to be able to explain well. Adverbs like “intimately” do not help because that’s vague and unclear writing. I do think this can all be true (would like to hear other’s thoughts) while it also still being important to point out that this makes the US different from Japan.
As of right now, I don’t know how I stand on the death penalty. My instinctual feeling when someone kills 31 people by burning them alive like I mention at the end is yes. As it would be if my family was brutally murdered by someone. That being said, the non zero probability, especially in Japan with its high prosecution rate, makes the risk quite uncomfortable that I start thinking - better not. But then I can think that, that makes me some moral saint - that I would not take that chance with the death penalty - but I and the majority of the world would take that chance with locking someone in a cell for extended periods of time. So I’m not sure my morality is consistent. Long story short, I don’t really know.
Discrimination in capital punishment was explicitly written in many states’ laws during slavery. Black people - (whether slaves or not) - faced the death penalty for crimes that were not even be eligible for death if committed by a white person.
Why did you pronounce _Aum Shinrikyo_ like A.U.M. Shinrikyo??
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@@cyberherbalist the US consitution is an improved copy of the English bill of right 1688 which the brits will either deny the exist of or hate it
@@Zangified02 EDL E E EDL EDL EDL EDL EDL EDL EDL EDL
You have been condemned to ultimate uncertainty
as any living being on earth.
@@maxmeier532 You are given the luxury of focusing 100% on that uncertainty and nothing else that could resemble joy, hope or fulfilment
Oh, the poor, misunderstood criminals! How utterly tragic that they are deprived of the luxury of a handy calendar reminder for their impending execution. Who could bear the heartache of such an oversight? Truly, Japanese society’s blatant disregard for their need to meticulously plan such significant life events is beyond comprehension. It’s not as if these convicts took the effort to book an appointment with their victims, thoughtfully ensuring they were fully aware of the exact date and time they’d be brutally slaughtered. "Excuse me, would next Tuesday at 3 PM suit you for your untimely demise?"
Really, imagine the shock and horror these CONVICTS must endure, facing their end without a day marked in their otherwise busy calendars. How inhumane to rob them of the opportunity to prepare like it's a dentist appointment. Truly, it's society that has failed them, not the other way around.
Japanese laws, shockingly, don't bend over backwards to pamper and coddle criminals the way Western legal systems do. Imagine that, a legal system that prioritizes actual justice over the comfort of those who have wreaked havoc on innocent lives. Heaven forbid! What a monstrous concept, that the focus should be on the victims who will never see another tomorrow, rather than on the sensitivities of those who brought about their untimely end.
So, spare me the melodramatic sob stories and crocodile tears. Don’t project your self-righteous, virtue-signaling nonsense onto other countries that don’t coddle convicts. If only you could channel all this empathetic energy into supporting victims rather than lionizing those who wronged them. But no, please, do go on about the grave injustice of not catering to the meticulous schedules of those who have caused unimaginable suffering. After all, it’s far more important to maintain the pristine image of moral superiority, isn’t it?
@@Zagirus This doesn't take into account the innocents executed or the sheer cost on the system compared to keeping them in prison for life.
@@jax5683
You’re arguing against the death penalty, but here I was pointing out that if we have it, convicts shouldn’t get a scheduled execution date. After all, why should they know when it’s coming? Their victims certainly didn’t get a courteous heads-up.
The design is very human
Lmao
I don't get the evil part, where is the evil design?
@@万恶共匪毒害中华the fact that they don’t have a date. That’s evil af
@@Samira_m84Aww how dare they not give a date? Man has some busy schedules. Can you even imagine just going about your day and suddenly it's your day? Can't be the victims of the perpetrator. Definitely!
@@Samira_m84 none of us have a date, how evil right?
In Singapore and Malaysia, there is still death penalty for drug trafficking.
what the heck is that death rooom contraption, multiple rooms, a spinning religion panel, a moral dilemma button, feels like an escape room straight out of zero escape
They have the delayed multi buttons because executions are seen as an unclean act that would taint the soul so to keep from making someone become unclean spiritually they make it ambiguous as to who did it
I assume that the religious statue panel didn't literally rotate, it was probably just that way for making the animation look nice.
A staff member would probably place the appropriate figure in the altar earlier that morning based on what religion was on file for the prisoner. To change the statue, they'd probably remove the statue and get the other statue from a storage cupboard.
@@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74 It is a common feature in a lot of execution methods. Firings often had a blank or dummy round handed out amid the live cartridges so that each shooter could think that might not have fired a fatal shot.
@@andrewweitzman4006 yes but this is especially important for Shinto as becoming unclean is a pretty bad thing to become societal. It wasnt until the meji restoration that the caste system involving Shinto spirituality was actually being reformed away. Executioners, grave diggers, butchers, fishermen, and trash collectors, other essentials, beggars criminals, and the descendants of those people were burakumin and werent consider people even into the modern era, but the government has been trying to undo those harmful traditions since the meji restoration, but traditionalist do make that pretty difficult.
@@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74Ah, like an electronic firing squad. How grim.
Calling it "evil" is subjective and based on your Western standards
@stephenchisadza4975 the modern west has no standards...
“Western standards” 🤣
Found the weeb
@@DoflamingoDonxiquote it is
"Calling it 'justice' is subjective and based on your Eastern standards."
See how that works? It's _subjective_ for you too, my guy....
I've got a lot of ambivalence against this. This dude sentenced 7 people to a brutal death, I am sure they didn't see it coming, either
Actually, those 7 people probably expected a peaceful death at an old age, surrounded by their children and grandchildren. They probably didn't live in fear of a violent death, knowing that it could happen any day.
From time immemorial societies have removed those they know are a serious danger, it's truly astonishing how many people today can be deluded into wanting to keep them around in any capacity. How many lives would be saved if judges were tried as accessories to any crimes the killers they let out commit in the future?
@aisdxcarr as someone who can read, I can assure you they didn't say that.
@@aisdxcarr Are you silly?
Stop wasting time talking about unimportant things (the one that k'd 7) and focus on what matters: the innocent who are wrongly convicted. Japan's "justice system" is more biased and corrupt than the yank one, with MANY innocents wrongly convicted and imprisoned. If you ignorantly believe "innocent people are never convicted", then you aren't qualified to talk about this.
Utah, Idaho, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Oklahoma still allow the firing squad as a backup method over lethal injection. The most recent execution by firing squad was 2010 in Utah.
if i got executed... i think this would be my first choice but not after like 10 years
Yeah, but that is SO messy. "Hey Bob, they did another one. You better grab the BIG mop and bucket for this one."
That's one benefit of being from Mississippi.
@@BrilliantDesignOnline 😂🤔 They could always use an all tile room. Then you can just hose it all down. You'd have to use pistol calibers though. That way it doesn't overpenetrate and then damage the room.
@@BrilliantDesignOnline power washer
in russia they put the death penelty on hold changed it to life (until death ) in prison , and you dont want to be there . the day they changed the law many prisoners commited
suicide .they would have rather been hanged than serve life in prison.
imagine getting jailed, executed, then cremated and back to jailed
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@@Racks47 achievement unlocked: how did we get here?
every day
ugh, mondays
I don't feel any sympathy for kato
Same
@@nicolasbascunan4013wow, taking into account human rights, how awful! 🤡
Cool, man. Thanks for sharing.
@clicheguevara5282 absolutely ironic pfp
@@nicolasbascunan4013 I think it's clickbait 1. and 2. Who wouldn't feel bad for the other innocent dudes lol
7:19 Lethal injections also have the highest rate of botchery out of all the methods. The idea of being conscious and in in excruciating pain whilst unable to move or give away any signals of my suffering is something truly terrifying.
What in the lethal injection would cause pain? All that happens is serum K+ increases until myocardial repolarization is no longer possible. I haven't truly researched the topic, but I'm curious to know where your fear comes from?
@@cam609lee there is an interesting last week tonight on lethal injections that you should check out
@cam609lee
The part that kills you is painful, and if the parts that put you to sleep and numb you aren't enough, or lacking in general, you end up in agony but unable to move as the muscle relaxants tend to work.
@@cam609lee Lethal Injection is a multi-step process where they first sedate the prisoner, then give them a numbing serum, and then finally the lethal injection. The issue arises when either of the previous two are not done properly. This can leave the victim aware of what is happening, and the lethal injection is not painless. There is at least one account from a survivor of a botched injection. He said it was as if liquid fire was being put into his veins and was being chocked at the same time.
@@cam609lee The whole issue with lethal injections is that companies aren't willing to sell the desired chemicals to produce the injection and that many medical practitioners aren't willing to be the ones to administer it. As such, improvisation takes place, substitute ingredients are found that don't tick all of the requirements, personal without all the needed skills gets put in charge.
That story about the arson attack is so bizarre too - it happened at Kyoto Animation’s main studio (A Silent Voice, Haruhi Suzumiya, K-ON!) and took place because the perpetrator believed his submission to an animation contest they ran plagiarized his work (it obviously didn’t).
Absolutely wild loss
i was just thinking about what a horrible way to die this death penalty is when he said about people being burned to death, makes you think twice, although i still think death penalty should be abolished - innocent people have been executed. i'm an animator too by the way, retired.
@@AlexanderBogdanow What the fuck is this comment.
@@AlexanderBogdanow tmi bro wtf?
60% through the video. Still waiting for the evil design.
Update: watched the whole video. The "evil design" was never explained. Only a basic death penalty system.
多くの日本人はこの死刑制度が外国から批判される対象なのは知っていますが変える必要はないと思っています。私もその一人です。本当にこの問題を改めさせたいのであれば日本人に伝わるように日本語字幕をつけるのはどうでしょうか？良い議論になると思いますよ。
@@小峠-t9b 外国人の意見ですがチャンネル主がただ英語圏の人々に日本の死刑に関しての情報を提供するためにこの動画を作ったのではないかと。。
@@flxible431 そうなんですね。日本では他国の問題に触れる事はあまりないので不思議な感覚です。
ナショナリズムに私が慣れてないのか…利益を感じて不快になってしまいました笑
@flxible431 I agree but I feel like more diverse opinions in the comments would be a benefit. Being from the US, I am more interested in what Japanese people think.
@@小峠-t9b
これがうまく翻訳されれば幸いです。
日本とは異なり、多くの西洋諸国は統一された国家アイデンティティを持っていません。これは、通常 2 つの理由で、自分の理想、価値観、システムを他者に対して常に批判することにつながります。
1: 彼らのやり方が何らかの点で優れており、他の人は変更する必要があることを検証します。
2: 彼らのやり方は間違っており、より投影された国に近づくために変更する必要があることを証明します
このビデオに対する私の返信: そうですね、簡単な解決策があります。鼻を清潔に保ち、日本でも他の場所でも死刑囚になるようなことはしないでください。
rare sighting: Hoog doesn't talk about how great the Netherlands is
@SaojChess The Netherlands is so cool though
Less so after the recent government...
So he can talk about how not great Japan is.
@@MartijnPenningsoh no the majority of the people didnt want what you wanted.
@@Arendvdvenk like the majority wanted a president which they didnt choose.
You basically answered your own question about Japan's homicide rate being low. Japan is almost entirely Japanese. That is why the homicide rate and violent crime rate is much lower. Making a country more "diverse" changes that. There is more conflict (from all sides) and more crime. That's just a fact.
That is not a fact, that is just a racist assumption asshole
The 3 button system is actually intriguing and fascinating.
as typical for japan, their method/ system is very well thought out and considered mulitple facets.
TOOL!
no
I thought they were going to have the prisoner push the button himself
The amount of people who do not understand why this is evil is saddening. Did people not hear how easy it is to be falsely convicted it is from the video? Did they not hear about the people falsely put on death's row? The cop who withheld an innocent's person alibi for years, condemning him to a tortorous existence and ever-present threat of death? Do people not understand the concept of false imprisonment? Do people not understand how important it is to humanely treat criminals? I'm always reminded of the following quote whith situations like this:
“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In my experience, it is one of the most important ones to understand. Most important to learn and practice.
Bruh, problems in judicial and police systems are another matter.
They should be considered in light of a DP policy in a given place to be sure, but the system here looked at, in isolation is NOT inherently brutal nor evil.
@@theobell2002 Exactly.
My city centre flat is about the same size except I have to pay £650 per month for it.
Government incompetence and corruption is the best argument against the death penalty. Too many innocent people are exonerated after decades in prison or facing and fighting the death penalty in court (which actually makes the death penalty more expensive for taxpayers than keeping someone alive and in prison for the rest of their lives)
@@Tortilla.Reform I think that the moral conflict is the best argument against the death penalty. It also the question who decides who has to die?
@@DIVERSERNAME The moral conflict is subjective because it isn’t a moral conflict for many other people
@@DIVERSERNAMEthere is no moral conflict. The system, not people decides who dies, absolves all of the guilt of killing the inmate, as it was he who did it to himself.
Boom done, argument over. Honestly the “moral argument” is the worst one to make especially in our immoral society lmao, just tell people it costs money and they’ll hop on board with you.
This could have been 3 minutes long
We are supposed to feel sympathy?
@@j.burgess4459 that's what I'm thinking too
For the falsely condemned, yes. For the guilty, no.
When I first saw the title, I thought they were still made to do Seppuku...
That practice was for if you are being permitted to keep your honor intact.
That’s only a ritual for noblemen and samurai. It’d be considered distasteful if a commoner or a non-warrior/soldier did it.
the idea is that you arent made to do that, or at least pretend you arent made lmao
@@lufsolitaire5351 what?! so i didn't have to do it? fml
@@croozerdog Bro, I've already started. Why didn't you say sooner
How is this a problem with the penalty and not the judicial system? Seems like the examples you're giving are ones where innocent people were sentenced. That's pretty flawed.
I imagine the reason the death penalty was abolished in those countries with authoritarian regimes was because they massively abused it; so when the regime was ousted, the people were never willing to take that risk again. Of course this ousting never fully happened in Japan, and you could argue the country is to this day quite authoritarian in many ways.
The question is more complicated in countries that have always been fairly democratic: there, I feel, it becomes more a question of conservatives against progressives; which is shown nicely in the US too.
The risk of it being abused is always too high. Never give a state too much power, ever.
You're right at least in Spain. Most sentenced to death in its final years were political activists and that kind of unjustified stuff.
@@Marconius6 Yeah, although here in the States, it's a bit more complicated. While it is largely a conservative vs liberal thing, it isn't a universal one, as there are a lot of conservatives, generally the ones with libertarian tendencies who do oppose the death penalty on principle, plus other conservatives who want it narrowed, even if not in favor of abolition. Our conservatism has always had and does have a significant skepticism toward government power so the lines on the right often get blurred on this issue. It did use to be politically toxic to oppose it(big reason why Bush, Sr. won in '88) but the country is much more libertarian on criminal justice than it used to be and that's shown on the right too.
@@SupweIt says on the internet that the last people sentenced to death in Spain were part of terrorist bands that killed two policemen
Is it possible that the low crime rate in Japan is DUE to the fear of death penalty? And the high shooting and stabbing rates in USA and UK respectively are DUE to the lack of Death penalty? What are your thoughts on that?
Why is this considered brutal?
$180 to execute a person is crazy
All they did was push a button
They even turned the death penalty into a game show
Your production quality is insane! Wish you posted more frequently, haha.
Rare footage of hoog not glazing Japan for 20 minutes straight
@@rileymerson8781 He has never glazed Japan
You mean Amsterdam
damnnnn even hoog himself came in to prove you wrong
@@hoogyoutube Japsterdam
i am not against the idea of the death penalty for the most heinous crimes
I say if you don't want to meet an evil death, don't be evil
As of no one has ever been falsely imprisoned.
@@mikepalmer1971 To get to the death row in Japan (and pretty much anywhere else) you have to do something so big and messed up the chances you got there by accident are pretty much non-existent.
@@El_Loto_Azúl there were 2 separate examples in the video of that happening. And in the US, according to death penalty info, for every 8.3 executions, one person is exonerated afterwards
@@El_Loto_Azúl not really...
@@pepiggy114 Can you name any more than those 2 examples?
Capital punishment is still practised in South Korea 🇰🇷 and China 🇨🇳
@@Buzzard061 I see why China
Why mention China?
@@diogorodrigues747China is not a developed country? Well you haven't been paying attention have you?
@@diogorodrigues747they only do that so they don’t have to hold themselves up to the standards of a “developed” country. By all metrics they are. It’s just more advantageous to them to say they are still a “developing” country.
@@deanpd3402 of course they are a developed country
the US did the kill switch guilt thing too but it was a firing squad and only like one or two have real rounds vs blanks so nobody has to know they killed someone - fun fact thats STILL legal in some states
1:15 The most Japanese prison cell ever
"evil design" lol, it is not meant to be pleasant.
it's clear that this guy is a far left winger.
UA-cam censorship and pre-emptive self-censoring is ridiculous. This guy bleeped out *THEIR OWN* 1:48
I am more concerned with Japans juridical system and their unusually high conviction rate than I am concerned with them having death penalty.
Theoretically the tax payers should not be burdened with the life support of people that can never safely be let into society. My only problem with capital punishment is a distrust in the juridical system and potential tyranny that can exploit it, so from this perspective I would rather see an overhaul of Japans archaic court system than a complete abandonment of capital punishment.
The death penalty should be legal, but only sentenced in cases of extremely overwhelming evidence that is irrefutable.
So what counts as overwhelming evidence? You can doctor just about anything with enough resources, corruption or connections.
@@MajinOthinus The whole justice process is in strong need of reform pretty much everywhere. Ideally I’d like that sorted out to minimise false convictions at any level. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely my country will ever reform its system the way it should, let alone bring back the death penalty.
@@AlexanderDiviFilius
Like for Muilenberg and Calhoun?
Yea
@@MajinOthinusexcept there’s a minuscule amount of cases in which evidence is doctored and an overwhelming majority of false convictions are due to pure incompetence.
Controversial opinion: I don't think the Death Penalty is bad, its just been done badly, especially with our most recent examples being in the US, where everything that can be done wrong, will be done wrong.
"Americans will always do the right thing, after exhausting every other option."
There is no way to do it well, though, unless you consider the possibility of the executed actually having been innocent as acceptable, you're gonna have to put in so many checks that keeping someone imprisoned for life ends up way cheaper (with the added benefit of still being able to release them if you made a mistake). This is ALREADY the case in the us, death penalty DOES cost more, and STILL its not enough checks cuz innocent ppl have been executed there before. It just doesn't work
You don't think it's bad because you have figured in your head you will never be wrongly convicted.
Geweldige video man! Elke keer weer lever je een documentaire van top kwaliteit
the idea that "two of the kill switches dont work" is probably a lie. it's probably a 3-button AND switch that only trips when all three of the buttons are depressed, and the story of two of them not working is circulated to give people an out, emotionally. "my button probably didn't kill him"
That makes much more sense than this narrator’s rubbish about an inbuilt delay in the system.
Why are you talking about “black lynchings” in regard to the U.S. death penalty? The U.S. death penalty is not “intimately connected with its history of racial discrimination and enslavement”. If that were the case, then everything would be connected to it and no state in the U.S. would still have the death penalty. That statement smacks of critical race theory, where everything is about race in the U.S. What have they done to our youth in our classrooms? Why would you even bring that up? Isn’t that leading to the notion that if you are for the death penalty in the U.S., then you are racist…if they are “intimately connected” as you say?
It’s a legitimate question with a legitimate concern. This isn’t just about your statement even if it were partially true, it’s your entire approach to it. EVERY human being on this entire planet has an ancestors who were slaves, every single one of us. Even isolated tribes that have “never” been in contact with other human beings? Yes, of course. The entire world’s history of slavery is another topic all together.
That leaves me with only two questions:
1. How is the death penalty in the U.S. “intimately connected” with “it’s history of racial discrimination and enslavement”?
2. How is the execution carried out? You came close, but never explained it. You skipped it after the three switch description. Thanks, now I almost know.
well, he says there is a trapdoor connected to one of the three switches, and earlier in the video, there is an image with the trapdoor open...
as for everything else, you're absolutely correct, people really like to point at maps and say "There is an increase in the popularity of [blank] in the Bible Belt, that means it's an evil practice only done by racists!!"
Thanks for your comment. I was getting irritated with the video 🫤
Maybe not nationwide, but the death penalty (well the prison system in general) in specifically the Deep South was absolutely connected to racial discrimination. These are the same places that kept slavery going for like 80 years after the Civil War.
- "The first recorded execution in the new colonies was that of Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608. Kendall was executed for being a spy for Spain."
- "In 1619, the first captive Africans were brought via Dutch slave ship to Point Comfort (today Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia), thirty miles downstream from Jamestown, Virginia. They had been kidnapped by Portuguese slave traders."
The first execution in America was carried out on a white man 11 years before the first African slaves had even arrived on North American soil. How droll. Thank you for commenting, it was bothering me too.
Its only weird how easily they can be sentenced
The dead cannot reoffend.
Bro thought this was deep.
@@H33t3Speaks A miscarriage of justice can't be corrected either.
How many bent cops/judges have there been.
I honestly love your maner off explaining everything so punctual and interesting. Good job keep up the good work and amazing visual to start the vid as usual!
I love your videos & your channels. Thank you for making these!
Probably the only time I didn't mind getting an ad. This was very informative, I enjoyed watching it. Thank you.
its also biased and inaccurate
@@SnakeHoundMachine care to explain?
@@Dummkopf420 he's immediately presenting the death penalty as evil.
He's drawn a pretty spurious connection between execution in the US and slavery, to imply execution as policy is racist.
The purpose of this video isnt to inform, its to persuade you that the death penalty is wrong.
@@christopherjones929 Did we watch watch same video??? I didn't take that away at all.
@@SessmaruKusanagiGamingI had the same takeaway as Christopher. The map he used and how he used it was very misleading.
Him being against the death penalty is fine because it’s his opinion; but people need to realize it’s an opinion and there are some strong biases present. I’m not for or against the death penalty so I’m not even necessarily disagreeing with the premise of the video; but to say it was anything but pretty heavily biased would be incorrect.
evil?
I am against the death penalty, but if I had to choose between terrible chemical injections and your neck getting instantly snapped, I'd go for former. From Japan Times:
_The method of hanging is the long drop, causing instant unconsciousness and rapid death by neck fracture._
色々な意見があると思うが。無実の被害者の人権を弄んだ者に人権なんて必要ないと思う。
Exactly.
Facts
I do understand you emotionally, but I’d rather you paid attention to the differences between generosity and human rights. The former is random feeling whereas the latter is a systematic theory that depends on deductive reasoning. The most typical example of deductive reasoning is math. If x and y are lines which are parallel, then they don’t cross. Here, you can’t ask why because it is something called an axiom. In deductive logic, you can prove many properties of lines or triangles but the absence of crossing points. This is true to human rights, too. Axiom; you have rights which can’t be alienated from you. See? Perhaps, you may think like this; then let’s change the axiom! Good news. It’s already tried by some enthusiastic people, namely Hitler, Stalin,Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping, and Meiji government (see the first article of their constitution. It was an alternative axiom).
Do you think it sounds like religion? Surprisingly you’re right. Human rights is religion by its definition according to Harari, the author of Sapience, which I think is very interesting and provocative.
Norway didn't have a death penalty but they allowed it only for Quisling and some other traitors in the aftermath of WW2. It wasn't fully abolished until 1979 where it was technically legal for the military to execute people in some cases, but the last execution was in 1948 in the before mentioned aftermath of WW2. I think the conversation for allowing it again reopened to potentially execute Anders Behring Breivik, a man who massacred 77 people and detonated a bomb in the Norwegian capital in 2011. The fact that he is still alive is wild, but im also slightly glad that our state didn't abandon their morals for the sake of one man.
(Only slightly glad, im pretty upset for the most part ofc. Very upset he lives but kinda glad our state kept their integrity, if that makes sense)
They still gave him a 3 room appartement. I believe a 2m x 2m room with no windows and a concrete bed would have been enough.
@@FredrikSkievan it would be unreasonable to punish a criminal using a law introduced after the crime because of the precedent that would set.
Because the death penalty was not on the books when he did it it's not an option, but if there is public support you can introduce it for the next guy.
Medical assistance in dieing for prisoners is also a thing that's been requested more and more as it gets rolled out in more and more countries.
I support MAID and for 99% of prisoners who might want this the main reason they would be denied is spite.
Unless they did something really fucked up and a case can be made of it being in the public interest for them to suffer more there really is no good reason to deny them.
There's maybe a 1% wrongly convicted who would opt for that because they can't take it but even in that case it entails a reduction of that persons suffering
@@Bobo-ox7fj It might as well be legislation already, it's absolutely ridiculous to expect a society to pay taxes to support the continued existence of a man whose only contribution to it was the destruction of innocent lives
I understand you.
@@Bobo-ox7fjYeah, I feel like that’s a can of worms we don’t want to open.
Great video. Definitely stay tune to your channel. 👍 good job.
begs the question, would YOU rather know, or not now, the day you are going to die?
I would totally know because that gives me a bit of reassurance and would help me not panic when I know the time for me to die is in just a few hours
There is no "begging" involved - you are using the phrase wrong. You mean it "raises the question".
@@G5rry Are you kidding me? People use this as an expression. This has has nothing to do with "erm, you're wrong". Are you a linguist? Do you know the history of commonly used expressions? If you talked to people, you would probably hear people use this exact same expression. Neither of these are wrong. You are not an authority on commonly used phrases. Once you show me your linguistic degree and not some self proclaimed idea in a comment section, maybe i can start listening to you.
@@starrynight_reverie he's right, though, regardless of whether you like that. From Wikipedia: 'Colloquial misuse of the phrase "begs the question" also occurs with an entirely dissimilar sense in place of "prompts a question" or "raises a question".'
know. uncertainty is hell. if you dont know then every day is like your last month or so if you do.
I am baffled by people who think life in prison is less of a punishment than the death penalty. If given the choice I would choose to die over spending life in prison.
depends on the country tbh... some countries prisons are worse than others...
@@bzipoli I am not concerned with the opinions of prisoners.
@@ASMORPHEUS1979 I'm not concerned with the opinions of fascists.
@@ASMORPHEUS1979 Watch Jacob Geller's video on the death penalty. You may change your mind.
I am baffled by your onesidedness
Unpopular opinion I don’t really care how they do the death penalty as long as it’s proven that they are guilty without any doubt
And what if some new evidence emerges years or decades later? There may be zero doubt during the trial today, but prosecutors and the jury cannot know everything.
(Which is completely impossible)
Well made video. Great audio and voice over. I need more.
You seem to have made a false affirmation at 3:38 when you said that Portugal's New State Regime had death penalty, well it did not, because the death penalty was abolished in 1852 for political crimes, 1867 for civil crimes and 1911 for military crimes.
Love your videos btw. Keep it up!
I think it’s more nuanced than both our sides. The 1976 constitution formally abolished the death penalty entirely. In military context it was still permitted, although sparingly I imagine, in the 1900s
Your editing skills and narration are top notch. Thank you for sharing!
The *BASED* Design of Japan's Death Penalty
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Lot of edgelords in comments
@@johnanon658 Das Reich
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I like this channel. Really interesting, high-quality content.
You do not cite what Tomijiro Kato was convicted of . . .
@@blenderbanana he says he killed seven people. I think your point still stands, even stronger.
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5:02 this system in Japan clearly shows us that our system of jury trials in the West, with 12 inexperienced jurors, a judge and defence and prosecution lawyers, is fundamentally flawed, as opposed to the Japanese system of at least 6 experienced judges on the bench - the only exception in the West is in the US Supreme Court
That's a common setup in civil law countries. There's no "jury" trial like in English speaking countries but you can have lay judges that are regular citizens that arbitrate alongside a set of career judges. This is usually only for very high profile crimes since it is quite the setup to have multiple professional judges for one trial.
@@Arkiasis This is the very reason why death penalty cases must only be tried in milltary courts under milltary law, even if the accused is a civilian and must only be held in milltary custody and the sentence of death must only be carried out by the milltary - the civilian court system is simply not sufficiently competent to handle far more serious cases for which there must be a death penalty applied and in force
In the Netherlands, we, thankfully, don't use trial by jury.
@@Arkiasis jury trials came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066. It was a carbon copy of the middle ages French Judicial system (jury is a French word), which itself was inspired by the Roman judicial system. To this day you have jury trials in France for murder cases.
Jury trial is an excellent system to ensure you don't have a class of citizens that capture the judicial system. At least there is a counterbalance with a jury.
Jury trials are to protect the citizens. They act as a review board for what the government does. Sorry you don’t have it in the Netherlands. Tho it’s govt. is better than most.
I don't believe the Death Penalty is immoral, Actions have consequences.
What should be the focus is how to avoid wrongful convictions. The system can never be perfect but it can be improved
Wait until you learn about consequences other than being murdered 🙀
@@spe3dy744 like
@@rowlandvictor4893if they were letting out more people they’d have a bigger crime problem, not really worth it. What they have works.
@@spe3dy744 No one is being murdered if they're convicted of a crime that results in CP. Learn what words mean.
Those poor serial killers!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Sad. The inmates who waited 30 -40 years.... could you imagine being innocent?
The fact that you put a sponsor at the end of this type of video is disturbing.
Why? It's an informative video, not one promoting the death penalty. Should educational content not be monetized?
One of the best videos you've done.
Good on Japan for protecting it's culture. You don't have to visit the country if you are uncomfortable with another nations cultural Norms.
It's the kyoani arson attack damn it still feels recent to me.
i teared up when he mentioned it..
it's 5 years already. but this show how Japan is so safe that there is no new death sentence since 2019.
@@PakkaponPhongtawee don't be fooled, they have similar rates of crime, but the only ones being prosecuted are the ones the detectives are almost 100% sure. There are many other petty crimes and SAs (Chikan) that are not prosecuted.
@@PrograError"they have similar rates of crime" yeah and they view way more things as crime 😅
Meaning most crimes in Japan would not be crime in us, meaning there less serious crime.
They also don't have school shootings and guns all over the place.
A child can safely go shopping there an not fear being attack.
Think that speaks for itself.
Smiler rates, not same crime
@@PrograError It isn't about being fooled, criome in Japan is very different to the rest of the world. On the whole an individual is very safe in Japan.
How about the victims?
This video is misleading because it only focuses on the "developed" world. AKA, a very small portion of the world. It tries to make it sound like the death penalty is wrong, even though it is the defacto for most countries. But for some reason the video ONLY blames the US and Japan.
It's like when westerners bring up 'the international Community' when they actually mean u.s., e.u, and the occupied tigers in east asia
@@ChasBeretta exactly!
Needed too press pause to let that sink in 2:11.
One thing to notice is that some people in the US do not support death penalty because it is cheaper to keep someone in prison their entire life than to have a death penalty (legal fees) this also prevents executing someone who was innocent afterward so it's also a better decision who don't care about the convicted one.
8:58 - 9:02... This was the Kyoto Animation Arson Attack... whch, I amm sure, still affect the anime community worldwide to this day.
What is the music that starts in 3:06. Great video
I totally agree with the Death Penalty. There are a lot of untold Evil in this World.
You speak as if the death penalty is effective at reducing crime.
The death penalty only serves to satisfy our instinctual emotions, and emotions shouldn't have a place in a court of law.
@@petertimowreef9085 but it has in the public opinion
@@petertimowreef9085it literally does.
@@Meteo_sauce If tougher sentencing and the death penalty really worked, the USA would be the safest country on Earth.
@@Bobo-ox7fj The us has average redicivism rates, it has nothing to do with that
I don't see it evil at all
I don't feel that the death penalty is wholesale a bad thing. There are some people who are a threat to everyone around them and it's best not to risk them hurting others again. Some can be reformed, I do believe that, but some cannot. Reform comes willingly. However, I do find issue with how easy an innocent man could potentially get executed in the Japanese legal system. The U.S. is far from perfect, too, but I feel more confident in our systems.
Yeah, the problem with the Death Penalty is really a lack of faith in the justice system.
I mean, if you go slaughtering people in the streets, you deserve the chair. But if someone else did it and you happened to look like him, not so much.
Innocent people go to jail all the time, for a number of reasons. Some courts wield the Penalty responsibly, others don't.
How so? At least 190 people who were sentenced to death in the United States have been exonerated and released since 1973.
The US prison system is really bad compared to systems from other developed nations. You should have a look into Scandinavian prison systems.
The death penalty is wrong because you always kill innocent people. Then, there is a problem you are almost seeing yourself. You see rehabilitation as an important part of the systems and that some people can not be rehabilitated. But how do you know if a person can do it or not? Some people need maybe 15 years in prison to see their mistakes. You can't see inside a persons head. Then where is the line you draw between sentencing someone to death or just years in prison? What would you do to prevent innocent people being killed?
@@Y172-zp1qx Google "Lucy Letby" and then tell me that you would want to have this person rehabilitated and reintegrated into society. I am usually against the death penalty, but in some cases where there is 100% proof, yeah, go for it. E.g. the case mentioned in the video: They guy ran people over with his truck and then started stabbing people. I think in this case his guilt is proven beyond doubt.
@@Blightbuster That's due to an increase in forensics technology and the prevalence of our justice system's ability to still provide appeals to sentencing.
amazing video, keep up the hard work.
in "beyond a reasonable doubt" it should be life in prison. But when it is "no doubt, homie was caught mid massacre"............well
This is very inaccurate.
Pair that with Japan's 99.9% conviction rate...
Different system of trial
...the conviction rate is because almost nothing goes to trial unless they are certain of a conviction (and even then, as this video points out, that certainty of a conviction may be achieved by hiding evidence that would risk a certain conviction).
@@furripupau lol they are famous for torture and falsifying evidence. The neighboring South Korea are no better.
@@furripupauit very much is not
@@furripupauyes, what you exactly mentioned is exactly why which makes it another evil. It's good for Sakae Menda (the one mentioned in the vidro) that his retrial led to his release. But it doesn't change what he went through.
3:30 HE DID THE MAP™️, IT'S THE MAP™️
He did it again when he was talking about “lethal execution doesn’t lower crime because the states with them still have high crime” lmao like yeah, I wonder what the south has a lot of that the rest of the country doesn’t
Those who oppose the death penalty don’t know what evil is
@@realdripmeister we do know, we just left medieval ideas of justice.
@@TheOriginalDogLPInstead we have more sensible ones like „don‘t punish people and let repeat offenders out on the streets“ and „let people buy themselves out of prison“
you say that until you or your family member gets wrongly convicted
@@TheOriginalDogLP so you do know evil and would rather give life to those that takes it.
Intresting.
@@electricant55a family member will always cry out that its wrong even if its objectively correct.
Just look at all the media of families of criminal people that died when they did bad shit within a cop's gunrange.
It does not matter if said criminal is caught on bodycam being a vile monster, his family will cry out and lie that he was a "sweet angel who didnt do no wrong!"
Haven't seen the evil part you're talking about ...
This isnt evil.
Yeah, but u are.
@@FradkinYashua lol
3:31 That is incorrect. There're many different ethnic groups in Japan (Ryukyuan, Ainu, Korean, Chinese, Wajin, etc.). Similarly to China, Japan's government would like everyone to think they are ethnically homogenous but that's factually false. Just as it is false that only one language is spoken in Japan. There's many different minority languages but with the exception of Ainu (officially recognized only in 2019) all minority languages are officially called "dialects of Japanese" by the government, like the entire Ryukyuan language family (11 languages), Tsugaru in Aomori, Hachijo of the southern isles or the Kagoshima language with all its dialects.
I have two rooms. One room has 1 red marble, 1 green marble, 1 blue marble, 1 yellow marble, and 1 white marble. The other room has 4 red marbles and 1 yellow marble. Would it be incorrect for me to say that the second room, in comparison to the first, is homogenous?
I think there are actually a few separate arguments happening now, and it's important to address them separately.
1. Ethnic Homogeneity of Japan: The first argument is whether Japan is actually ethnically homogeneous. There is indeed some state-driven narrative promoting the idea of a homogeneous Japan, and the reality does include ethnic minorities like the Ainu, Ryukyuans, residents of Korean or Chinese descent, etc.
However, by any standard metric-such as the relative size and diversity of ethnic groups within the country-Japan remains one of the most ethnically homogeneous countries in the world. Comparing a random town in Japan to a room full of United Nations delegates would clearly illustrate this point.
The second argument, which you rightfully bring up, I think is much more interesting.
2. Usefulness of Ethnic Homogeneity as a Comparative Measure: Whether ethnic homogeneity is a useful metric for country-to-country comparisons in the first place.
Regarding the more nuanced point about South Africa, it’s true that ethnic homogeneity is not always a perfect unit of analysis.
Country-to-country comparisons are inherently challenging and often imprecise. I'm sure there's some researchers that argue that heterogeneous societies may face more internal conflict due to a lack of cohesion, while other researchers would suggest the exact opposite: that homogeneous societies might experience more tension from marginalized minority groups.
Both perspectives can be valid, but they depend heavily on the specific context. In the context of the death penalty between the US and Japan, I gave one reason for why I thought it was relevant.
That's what I think is the actual problem.
This video was too short, too brief, and did not do the topic justice with the amount of detail that could still be included.
I would like to stand by the US being more ethnically heterogeneous than Japan as a meaningful observation, but it's not that meaningful if you spend less than 10 seconds talking about it.
@@hoogyoutube Yes, that's an incorrect statement. It would be correct to say it's more homogenous. And that is certainly true for the Japan and USA comparison.
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I've heard that a pure nitrogen environment is painless and quick and so is a hypobaric (high altitude) chamber for that purpose.
The use of the word "Evil" in your title strongly suggests a moral imperative, perhaps revealing a strongly held personal opinion that is contrary to the ethos of objective documentary filmmaking. Or do you use this word just for the clicks?
Just for clicks
@@hoogyoutube mood
99.6% 'GUILTY' rate in japanese courts too. (no jury system)
My understanding is that they do have a Jury in Japan. Except that the jury just assumes the prosecutor did their due diligence and did not make any mistakes and got the correct personal
@@noneofyourbizness if you watch the video you’ll see the system explained.
@@rons4620 It's not really a jury system in a sense that would be recognisable to common law systems. There's a panel of judges and a few of them happen to not be professionals. But lawyers have no capacity to challenge or scrutinise them, nor are they excluded from elements of the proceedings that could be prejudicial. It's just a judge panel that is typical of civil law systems, except they outsource a few of the members to the public.
US federal prosecutors have a 95% conviction rate
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click bait at it's finest
Either on this Channel or the Fern channel, you should sell a DaVinci resolve editing course.
he clearly use more than davinci resolve and the davinci resolve part is probably the one that doesn't need a course.
@@Feuillo true lots of it is made in blender clearly but I would like to know how he makes some of the 2d animation sequences
@@Asher-w6p Most likely After Effects, all motion graphics in this vid are quite easily made in AF with a little bit of learning and practice, none of Hoog's graphics are complex, but they're nice and minimalistic nonetheless
death penalty was still technically on the books in the british military when was serving in the early 90s. Dont know if thats still the case
Do a video on how the Japanese court/law works
This is evil and i dont support it at all, but i do think that Japan, making it so the officers don't know who did it, is the most humane part of all. Knowing that you did that would probably affect you forever, and they didn't sign up for it, so it being vague is at least commendable.
But you SHOULD know what you did. Not knowing doesn't make you free of guilt. That's ignorance.
I think the evil part is the waiting bit
The same process has been done for the most recent US firing squad execution, where out of five shooters, one had a less-lethal projectile. This was apparently done so that everyone would be unsure if they fired it or not. In Japan's case, its implemented with a little more nuance and more effective, I'd imagine, especially with the delay and being unable to see the trapdoor fall. I still wouldn't be sure if I'd want that forever "what if" hanging above my head though... so I'm on the fence on if this is actually helpful for these people or not. I suppose its case by case, but I don't think it works.
@@identitymatrixYou shouldn't know, you don't want your employees to be left with any trauma, that's why in execution squads only a few people had real bullets but they didn't know it.