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"Record 86% of Japanese Support Death Penalty, Yomiuri Reports"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this Bloomberg news item.  Here are the details: Japanese support for the death penalty rose to a record 85.6 percent, the Yomiuri newspaper reported, citing a poll by the Cabinet Office. Support for capital punishment rose from 81.4 percent in 2004, while opposition to the death penalty under any circumstances declined to 5.7 percent, from 6 percent, the report said. The Cabinet surveyed 3,000 men and women 20 and older, it said. Death penalty abolitionists often like to suggest that only third-world countries or countries with poor human rights records like China still are fans of the death penalty.  But I always remember that Japan stands as another modern example of an advanced industrialized nation that still utilizes capital punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 07, 2010 (boomark / email).