Kyoto Animation's arsonist has been sentenced to death.

Death penalty just sends a message that killing people is the best way to solve problems which leads to more violence and it makes him a martyr. It's just shooting yourself in the foot. Killing one more wont bring anyone back. It wont heal anyone's hearts. Also the guy obviously has severe mental issues not some cartoonish coldly calculated evil mastermind the guy even got himself lit on fire when doing this. It's practically criminalization of mental illness giving worse treatments to people not based on their ability but their disability. This leads to more people avoiding seeking help of any kind from mental problems being stigmatized so much and being seen as something that needs to be killed to be dealt with. All this leads to societal ruin as more and more cases increase from the negligence. The fact the death penalty even exists in Japan a country with such a fucked up court system where you are guilty until proven innocent and police force false confessions is just frightening but no one here wants to acknowledge that. He's already behind bars, who is he going to hurt that he needs killed to stop him? He doesn't. He needs medical treatment and to be kept away from people he might hurt.

@traed The death penalty in Japan is only imposed for aggravated murder. There are 10 criteria by which this "aggravation" is determined. Among them, for example, are such criteria as "whether the relatives of the murdered person were greatly concerned" and "whether the murder caused a public outcry". That's an exact hit.

Shinji Aoba, in my opinion, should have been given compulsory treatment and lifetime supervision to avoid another horrible case like this, but the aggravating circumstances simply prevented it from happening even though the man was mentally ill.

Anyway, my condolences to the people who died in the fire and their families. Shinji Aoba will get what was to be expected. Whether it's fair or not is not for us to decide.

I feel that this is a complicated matter. And guilty or not, I think that celebration is rather inappropriate.

Death penalty just sends a message that killing people is the best way to solve problems which leads to more violence and it makes him a martyr. It's just shooting yourself in the foot. Killing one more wont bring anyone back. It wont heal anyone's hearts. Also the guy obviously has severe mental issues not some cartoonish coldly calculated evil mastermind the guy even got himself lit on fire when doing this. It's practically criminalization of mental illness giving worse treatments to people not based on their ability but their disability. This leads to more people avoiding seeking help of any kind from mental problems being stigmatized so much and being seen as something that needs to be killed to be dealt with. All this leads to societal ruin as more and more cases increase from the negligence. The fact the death penalty even exists in Japan a country with such a fucked up court system where you are guilty until proven innocent and police force false confessions is just frightening but no one here wants to acknowledge that. He's already behind bars, who is he going to hurt that he needs killed to stop him? He doesn't. He needs medical treatment and to be kept away from people he might hurt.

@traed It doesn't bring people back to life, but it save's alive people's tax money that would partly be going towards feeding him if he were behind bars for a life sentence

The problem here isn't that the guy had mental issues, but that he admited that the motive was revenge
I agree mental ilness should not be stigmatized, but it should also not be used as an excuse for bad behaviour

Now if there was no motive and there was a chance he'd been manipulated by someone else to do the dirty work and that possibility hadn't been investigated, then you could say that is either negligence or corruption, but that does not seem to be the case this time

As for the court system and false confessions, that is a problem of corruption that needs to be adressed, but Japan is far from the only country that has those problems in their system and police force

What does all of this have to do with anime discussion?

@DigiCat
It is actually expensive to execute someone. Plus in Japan they wind up in prison for a very long time before even getting executed so it is even more than some other backwards countries like the US. You also are forgetting people in prison can work to sustain themselves too.

It is called giving context. I cant tell without a psych evaluation details but the guy likely was delusional and with some other issues in his life. Any normal person would have just pressed some legal charges against them, though if that isnt an option in Japan maybe they could reconsider so people have safer means to express their negative feelings rather than doing something harmful.

Yes and it mainly is Tokyo ive heard. Not sure it is anywhere else in Japan.

Death penalty just sends a message that killing people is the best way to solve problems which leads to more violence and it makes him a martyr. It's just shooting yourself in the foot. Killing one more wont bring anyone back. It wont heal anyone's hearts. Also the guy obviously has severe mental issues not some cartoonish coldly calculated evil mastermind the guy even got himself lit on fire when doing this. It's practically criminalization of mental illness giving worse treatments to people not based on their ability but their disability. This leads to more people avoiding seeking help of any kind from mental problems being stigmatized so much and being seen as something that needs to be killed to be dealt with. All this leads to societal ruin as more and more cases increase from the negligence. The fact the death penalty even exists in Japan a country with such a fucked up court system where you are guilty until proven innocent and police force false confessions is just frightening but no one here wants to acknowledge that. He's already behind bars, who is he going to hurt that he needs killed to stop him? He doesn't. He needs medical treatment and to be kept away from people he might hurt.