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People AreShocked to Find Out How Japan Carries Out the DeathPenalty

#deathpenalty#capitalpunishment#longdrop#fakeouts#choke
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0:00 thank you [Music] we've recently talked about this but I wanted to talk about it because Joe's not here so we can actually talk about it all right we're talking about Japan today oh man we need Joe for you people are shocked to find out how Japan carries out the death penalty now I thought we had talked about this recently different types of death penalties but I realized that we were talking about it from a U.S perspective in the different states and we didn't think about uh different types of death penalties because I know that we have really dark minds but anybody here familiar with Hal or one of the types of ways that Japan carries out their death kind ever thought about that me neither they don't do the old school like you do it yourself except that's with honor right that's with honor that's with honor you have to be that's

0:52 an honorable death where they grant you that that's just gangsters but right that's kind of sick right it's like it's like when you lose in a battle myself yeah and then and then you like you know you go to the other like the other ████ Commander or whatever but they're still willing to pay respect by giving you a honorable death and honorable means you stab yourself and they behead you that's a whole gangster or you get beheaded by your second in command so that the honorable people don't have to I mean sorry your enemy doesn't get the opportunity oh next yeah your next in command is kind of like you know giving you your honor by keeping that's that's just crazy but I think that causes PTSD for the second guy in command if it didn't that'd be ████ you don't think he's like conflicted at some point because I think they like it I know but like it's like a high five where's Joe we need to ask jokes last

1:42 high five of his life is quite the high five if I had a boss or something and I really looked up that dude and I had to chop his head off that'd be rough that'd be devastating so as of 2022 55 countries still use the death penalty as a form of punishment in 2021 the country broke an almost two-year execution Hiatus when three men were killed by the state with Japan's first execution of 2022 taking place in July when tomoh Hiro Kato who was convicted of stabbing seven people to death in 2008 was hanged wow I'm gonna guess that wow that's gangster but the capital punishment uh is a specific type of hanging it's what they call a long drop hanging you die faster yeah that sounds like the neps it sounds

2:32 like it yeah this is where you stand I look like square games oh it's a trapdoor oh ████ they do that at like ████ Bad Bunny concerts yeah they do just the other way the other way though not saying any of us understand but would you rather a a long drop hang or one of the ones you see in those westerns where you kind of Choke out long drop 100 so snap your neck right away probably die faster right yeah for real you want to struggle you don't want a ████ chiropractor just doing the one final pull I think if I if I had someone just choke me out to sleep that's probably the best way to go no you gotta choose one of those choices but this isn't like choke you out to sleep on you uh even with the Hang right you always see them like it's like well maybe it's the same thing I don't know I've never been chilled out to sleep no

3:22 I think I think the the hanging is probably the worst way to go probably because out of the two you want somebody Jiu Jitsu choke you I think that'd be the sweetest like if I was like yo I ████ up Bart killed me and then he chokes me but then but then since I'm his friend over that's quite the sweetest way to go out that's what I'm saying I see sometimes though that people are like kind of trying to fight that and then they like slowly like yeah but that's different from when we see them in the movies and they're like and then they're like pupils turn red and ████ yeah it's like a little different is this same though yeah oh yeah this one because this one's nice and slow right the blood and then like even when you like practice doing it you'll have someone will hold their hand up and then as soon as their hand drops like okay this guy's unconscious let go the other one is just like it's like blood and windpipe choke all at once this is more of like a blood choke right like you're

4:12 just slowly stopping karate yeah you just slowly preventing the blood from going to the brain but the Rope one it's like blood and windpipe and everything whatever the ████ the windpipe is the painful part whatever the ████ you got going on yeah human anatomy that's all going yeah I'll change my answer long drop then excuse me you're convinced me so you can have both yeah combo capital punishment doesn't work capital punishment in Japan is also quote shrouded in secrecy and can allegedly take place without much warning okay so executions in Japan are shout outs you can see with prisoners typically given only a few hours notice they don't tell you until like they and some are given no warning at all before

5:03 their death sentences are carried out that's so scary I do remember Joe telling me this where in Japan I've been to like freak them the ████ out let's say he deserves a death penalty he could be in jail for 10 years or he could be in it for a day and they won't tell you it just happens so every day you're living in here oh God that's crazy they'll sentence you already they're like hey you're gonna die by hanging but we don't tell you where yeah oh my God that is so ████ up that's that is that's me eating cake fake outs too today right they put you they put your head through yeah and then they go no we're just kidding yeah not today yeah today not today not today [Music] what's got going on in there you got one more day or two who knows you imagine it they just go all the way it's like a 15 minute thing they're like ████ put you through it and then they go three

5:54 two just kidding that's a ████ up jail dude or even the ████ floor drops and then you get caught by Sumo he's like ah just kidding I spent all this budget to do these fake outs they love the pranks dude they love the videos I got to you Japanese game show there's a hidden camera over there the jail is like we have budget problems too much on fake outs too much he says that whole thing holy ████ but he doesn't know the rust backstory yeah at all

6:45 he's like I love 30 rocks he doesn't know look at it he's just like yo what the ████ what are you doing here in them getting no warning uh at all before death sentences sometimes um their families the part I think about it it says their families are usually notified about the execution only after it's taken place oh that's cool it's their family is that also just like when they get even if they know their kid or whatever uh has a capital punishment like that they don't know when it's gonna happen but when it does happen they're just like it happened so scary for the family too holy ████ but I feel like the inmates they're either like really Zen every day or they're like

7:35 living in fear because if you accept it and you go I want to be a good person in order like oh man I'm just gonna ████ try to rape everybody to great great yeah great great everybody yeah so uh there's also reports that inmates sentenced to death have their next swiftly broken using a rope and trap door so that's better than you know very very slow hopefully a black hood is placed over inmates heads and they are also blindfolded before prison officers simultaneously press buttons releasing the trapdoor without giving away which button actually opens oh vitamin like lights happen it's all wrong button like a disco ball crazy parties here in prison that's cool they do the firing squad style though where no one knows who's responsible

8:25 because everyone so you don't have to live with that yeah that's cool guards like make fun of each other they're like I bet you did it I bet it was you that did it they're like they're like three two one what's he do dude I'm sure you have to have a sense of humor or a ████ job like that man all right yeah exactly seven people line up to press but you're joking around everybody pressed some you didn't the guy's still there you're like oh ████ the idea if every button still does something like yours will just go that'd be so tight and then the one guy

9:15 who's like hey mine's not making oh are you sure mine doesn't work meanwhile like 100 people you keep pressing people are getting hung everywhere oh my God or the trap doors going like this and he's not going in he just goes oh yeah dude that's crazy you should run out of prison I think how does is anyone here like really like not gonna shame you but do you not want death penalty to exist at all yeah me I think it's good no group thank you guys I actually think I remember I wrote a paper about it in high school about the tax to pay the tax dollars I was against it because of the tax dollars it was just like picking pick a controversial topic and then argue about it and that was just mine and I was like oh I learned a lot about the death penalty but that was it mine and my thing like that in I think sixth grade was about gun control and I was completely against

10:05 it teacher was like what are you reading what were you saying I just didn't think it was necessary guns are against guns no I was four guns yeah it's tight but I didn't I don't think I fully understood why didn't heard the sound sounds so cool I think it was a pretty ████ paper but yeah yeah same old mine so you're are you like mildly against death penalty no I I really don't have a horse on Race dude immediately I feel like uh I think uh I don't have enough knowledge to have an opinion on it I think it's nice to have death penalty because it's nice was it sweet because if you have like a

10:57 100 Year sentence and then you're getting graved it every day yeah I don't want to then I'm just gonna so you're doing a sympathy for the criminals yeah or or like uh you're like I don't wanna you know in order for the taxes really like uh okay I'll pick you back up all right plagiarism at its finest that was the 10th grade I didn't know but that what is the real thing you know because uh we paid less yeah yeah maybe it's like 30 to 40 Granite inmate per year yeah I remember in this in 2001 Maryland spent 18 million dollars trying to kill one person so yeah damn Maryland yeah spent 18 million trying to kill one person well to try them and then to put them on death row who is this person he

11:48 was a magician that's why he kept getting on the Rope yeah yeah he was really good at escaping yeah knowing U.S that's one of the things it's only the ropes like you get the death penalty it's like death by hanging and then you're like uh I have to appeal because my client is allergic to rope wait dude yeah that's kind of close three years later you get retrials ah sorry we have to appeal again you waited too long and my client has mental issues remember they appealed because the dude was scared of needles yeah and it worked they were like Okay We're not gonna do that then that happens that happens more frequently than not Humanity of the human like the humane way of death well that's such a funny thing because actually this guy Kato or Tomo hirokato in Japan when he was kind of like the guy who brought back the death penalty Hiatus of Japan following his hang over the summer the director of Amnesty International Japan expressed his outrage of the decision

12:39 and branded the execution as inhumane saying that the hanging of tomahiro Kato is a callous attack on the right to life regardless of the crimes he had committed he should never have suffered the ultimate cruel inhumane and degrading treatment at the hands of the state this is also a guy who like stabbed or something like eight people so so what's the I've heard like arguments that kind of um for for like against the death penalty but then whenever I hear of like the crime that the person did I just can't get behind like why we wouldn't kill him I feel like if you kill one person maybe accidentally or purposely maybe you get like a trial but then if you kill two person at separate times then you if you kill two person at the same time then maybe not or three person on accident but if it's like a habit habit yeah if you do the second time then you could die immediately because you do it again you just did it one time you're gonna

13:30 get it do it again you can have your fun the first time no I mean right why is one time man whatever oh no I get what you're trying to say what Jay's trying to say is he's like look you have your you major accidents in the first time everybody make mistakes everybody makes mistakes what up Nick what if Nick gets into an accident and it's genuine car accident he just kills somebody right yeah and then he also gets through a genuine accident again so he has to die I would I would kill myself the third time dude you can't do it twice you gotta die because it's like dude what are you doing what are you doing his first time he means to shoot somebody in the face yeah but he never kills the person a second time then he gets a he gets a thing he gets a thing he gets he gets it like uh okay fine I don't get to go to jail no no no you still go to jail a little bit no you can't kill somebody on purpose yeah on purpose I did kill him yeah yeah but he

14:20 killed two people on accident two different times seems more of a danger you yeah I agree here's my question can it be proven that that it's an accident and can it be proven that it's intentional yes because I am looking at the nest camera I'm gonna kill him it's set for freedom but the nest cameras [Laughter]

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