”For 39 years the convicted man, now 71 has remained on Japan’s death row in a small windowless cell wondering,when the guards will come to march him to the scaffold.
He was convicted only because of his confession,which was obtained after being confined and tortured in a small room for 20 days.
Executions are carried out by hanging in a death chamber.The condemned prisoner is informed few hours before the execution.The prisoner’s family and legal representative are never informed until afterward.There is no possibility of final meeting.Suspects are not recognised as human beings.If the prosecutor says someone is guilty,then it must be true”.
In November a dissenting judge Mr.Norimichi Kumamoto broke forty years of silence, highlighting the treatment of death row prisoners and flaws in the judicial system.
The highly industrialized Japan has not changed its treatment of suspects since 1600 century.
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