dude@lemmings.worldM to news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 24 days agoBreaking: Man sentenced to life in prison for assassination of Japan's Shinzo Abewww.abc.net.auexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down10
arrow-up18arrow-down1external-linkBreaking: Man sentenced to life in prison for assassination of Japan's Shinzo Abewww.abc.net.audude@lemmings.worldM to news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square4linkfedilink
minus-squareAllNewTypeFace@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 days agoI wonder why they didn’t push for the death penalty. Japan has it, and you’d think that premeditated political assassination would be a capital crime.
minus-squareCypher@lemmy.worldBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·24 days agoBasically the assassins allegations against Shinzo Abe held up and there would be enormous public outrage at executing him. They can’t kill him without turning him into a martyr.
I wonder why they didn’t push for the death penalty. Japan has it, and you’d think that premeditated political assassination would be a capital crime.
Basically the assassins allegations against Shinzo Abe held up and there would be enormous public outrage at executing him.
They can’t kill him without turning him into a martyr.