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"Executions carried out by hanging take place in an execution chamber within the detention center.[citation needed] When the death warrant has been signed, the condemned prisoner is informed on the morning of their execution.[citation needed] Some report that the condemned is given a choice of a last meal,[citation needed] others reporting (as of 2007) that at the time the condemned last eats, they do not know that the meal will be their last.[21][needs update] Chris Hogg of the BBC reports Amnesty International's perspective—which combines description and interpretation regarding conditions and foreknowledge—that condemned live under a "harsh regime and in solitary confinement with the ever-present fear of execution. They never know if each day will be their last."[21] Hogg also expresses the view that, as of 2007,[needs update] per the United Nations Human Rights Committee's International Convenants, this "failure to give advanced notice... is incompatible with articles 2, 7 and 10 of [that agency's convenant] on Civil and Human Rights...".[21][correction / clarification needed (possibly incorrect UNHRC covenant)]Right? There have been people doing this in Japan...at least the prisons there are clean, not overcrowded, and climate controlled. Picking a 3rd world country is wild as hell.
As of 2007,[needs update] neither the prisoner's family nor the general public (nor, by inference, the condemned's legal representation) are informed before the execution has taken place.[21] Until the 1970s, execution dates in Japan were announced to the condemned before the execution; however, cases of death row suicides before execution led to a change, with communication coming to 1-2 hours before execution.[23][verification needed][better source needed] From about 1998 until 2007, Japan's Ministry of Justice only released the number of inmates executed on a given day; before then, a total was released annually with the Ministry not "confirm[ing] that executions had been carried out".[21] As of December 2007, inmates' names were being announced on the day of execution.[21]"
In the context of this thread Japan's death penalty isn't super pertinent, but they do seem to get off on fucking with their prisoners.
Edit: Just like everyone else. Its fucking brutal out there.
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