Death Penalty

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

K. Mickey
>>I  just wonder why death penalty seems to attract even some leftists in
>>America. It's not the same elsewhere, is it? The popularity of  death
>>penalty must be related to the
>>popularity of anti-abortion sentiments via
>>moralism/individualism/anti-hedonism routes.
>
>I don't know if  the death penalty is popular in Asia, but both China and
>Japan enforce the death penalty. Japan is the only advanced industrial country
>other than the USA to use the death penalty, albeit very rarely in comparison
>to American practice.  The PRC executes fairly large numbers of convicted
>criminals.  And of course abortion is quite widespread  in both countries,
>even compulsory under certain circumstances in China.

My point is, however, in America death penalty seems to attract even some
*leftists* (as can be seen on this list) whereas in Japan no leftist seems
to endorse such a position.

Yoshie