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TOKYO: The death sentence in Japan is being examined once again when Iva Hakamada, a prisoner of the world’s longest serving death row, was awarded $ 1.4 million this week after he was acquitted at a trial later this week.

Japan is at stake for wrong penalties, where despite international criticism, the death penalty has public support for how it is committed.

There are some things to know:

Japan and the United States have only two members of the seven industrial economies group who have maintained the death penalty.

There is public support for this exercise, and 83 % of the 1,800 respondents’ 2024 Japanese government’s survey saw the death penalty as “inevitable”.

62 % of them said that if the death penalty was abolished, the families of the victims would never “feel right”.

But the same survey – which was conducted a month after Hakamada was bad – also found that those in favor of elimination increased to 17 % from 9 % to five years ago.

About 70 % of the opponents cited the “irrevocable” consequences of executed the wrongly convicted.

The Ministry of Justice told AFP that by December 2023, about 107 107 prisoners were waiting to be sentenced to death. It is always done by hanging. The law states that the execution must be made within six months of a final decision after the appeals are over.

In fact, however, most prisoners have been left in tents for solitary confinements for years-and sometimes decades-their mental health consequences. Japan has been the only process of nearly a century and a half century.

The culprits are blindfolded, their feet and hands are cuffs.

A trapidor opens under them when several prison officers press a button in the adjoining room with each.

No one is told which button stimulates a deadly method.

In 2022, three death prisoners demanded a stay order against the procedure, and declared it cruel.

Critics have argued that the execution is suffering from execution and he is suffering from abusive death, though the Supreme Court has not repeatedly oppressed the procedure.

According to the court, the death penalty can be considered cruel only by “burning, crucified, disconnected or boiling”.

More than two years have passed since Japan’s last execution – the longest break since 2007, when the Ministry of Justice began to discover the names of the executives.

The last execution, in July 2022, was cut off, which killed seven people in 2008 when he roaming the truck in Passengers in Akbarra district of Tokyo and then went to a knife -running.

Guru Shuko was executed by high level execution of Ashara and 12 former members of the AUM Shinkio Domes Day Clot in 2018.

Om Shinikio organized the 1995 Sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system, killing 14 people and making thousands more ill.

46 -year -old Shinji Oba’s death sentence, which killed 36 people in a Hollywood studio in the 2019 volcano attack, was finalized in January when he withdrew his appeal. The system is being widely criticized and the process lacks the transparency of the government.

Prisoners are often told about their coming death at the last minute, usually early in the morning before. Rights Group Amnesty International once said in a report that some could not be “warned at all.”

When the psychological pain of not knowing that they were killed, two prisoners were forced to file a case against the late notice system in 2021.

No family members are allowed to observe prisoners at the last minute.

Still, so much information about this system has been revealed that “the public has been deprived of basic grounds which will make their opinion formal”.