Tsutomu Miyazaki finally executed
Posted On June 16, 2008
So apparently they finally killed that sick motherfucker.
It’s so weird hearing this now, considering he killed those girls something like 20 years ago. I guess the justice system takes its time, huh?
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From what it says on Wikipedia, he probably should have been in a mental hospital, not prison, but serial killers are weird nuts. The horrible things they do obviously earn the punishment they receive, yet they also have such extreme mental problems that make them victims as well.
I can’t agree with the death penalty. Firstly it’s ethically wrong to think that having people put to death is justified in any circumstance. Secondly we need to keep criminals alive as prisoners just in case anyone wants to reopen the case.
Isn’t being imprisoned for life enough punishment as it is?
I have issues with the death penalty, but I aint gonna defend him. Sick fuck gives otaku a bad reputation (or, a worse one than they already had)
I just scared the living daylights out of a fellow otaku when I told him that Miyazaki was killed a few hours ago. I forgot to point out it was ‘the other Miyazaki’, and not the Ghibli one…
Anyway, the thought that he was still alive up till now makes me feel strange. I always thought of him as a thing of the past when in fact he was very much alive and kicking somewhere while we read about his crimes and influence our otaku history books.
I wonder what his life in prison was like. From what I’ve read he was pretty much insane, trying to revive his dead grandfather in satanic rituals (which he learned from anime?) and stuff. So what did they let/make him do for almost two decades?
Actually I don’t see much difference between death sentence and lifelong prison. Those punishments are both about taking away one’s possibilities to contribute to ‘society’. If one person turns out to have a ‘bad influence’ on ‘society’, the people in charge want to stop him from influencing it and both death and imprisonment are means to the same end for them. So one could wonder, if one deserves lifelong imprisonment, doesn’t he deserve death just as well (and the other way round, too)? In the end it might not really be a moral question which punishment is preferrable, but rather a mere tactical one. Both have practical advantages and disadvantages, so in the end it would still be difficult to judge between the two, leaving the issue controversial. Just some thoughts of mine…
But why was he killed right now, of all times? Couldn’t they have waited one more year or do they seriously want people to draw the connection between him and the recent murderer?
The death sentence will be controversial to many people (in gereral, not for this bastard). The question if brought up on life in prison or death. Some people want to reform criminals, some people don’t view death as an answer to anything, and then some people want revenge. Others think that life sentences tax society more than just putting a bullet through the guys head. What helps the rest of society more. Thousands of dollars spent on criminals that will never see the outside world again (or worse, those that will, get tough in jail and come out even worse than before, just wiser in how not to get caught), than an gun, a fifty cent bullet per use, plus labor costs.
It is and probably always will be a controversial topic.
Actually when it comes to saving money, life imprisonment (at least in the USA) is cheeper. With the death penality you have to pay for the drugs, and the imprisonment up until, plus when someone is on death row the appeals are longer and more costly to the US court systems.
Death by Firing Squad is only an option in 2 states as far as I recall.
It did take them quite a while. I wonder how long it will take them to excecute the Akiba killer.
Still, I wasn’t sure that Japan still had the penalty. Still Keideki is right thought about life being cheaper.
Let the guy choose, lifelong jail or death.
Yeah, bureaucracies always take their time….
Not like I really care a whole lot about life long sentence or death penalty, but on the plus side for the death penalty, we taxpayers don’t have to pay as much to go toward funding prisons at least. A dead person doesn’t need to eat or take showers, and “people die when they are killed” so….
In any case, I’m just glad that at least they finally gave him what he deserved, regardless of the form of punishment. I still can’t believe how much the media twists around Kato to make it seem like he was much of an otaku… Miyazaki sounded like someone ripped straight from the pages of ‘Welcome to the NHK’ whereas Kato had about as much to do with anime as I do with fashion.
All of this never would have happend if his hands where not defourmed….
and because of the ridiculing of his deforumity…
many people aren’t perfect,everybody should think about
that before labeling him
and i’m not defending him but…..