A Japanese court has found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on Okinawa, sentencing him to prison terms, in a case that has triggered anger and safety concerns on Japan’s southern island with a heavy American troop presence

  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Ah, premeditated, now there’s a qualifier missing from the original post. I’d argue some very narrow types of “murder” (as it appears in legal definitions of what you’d be charged with) should not come with a death penalty, and some edge cases not much punishment at all.

    Like the most innocent forms of manslaughter, like where someone dies as a result of noone’s fault but just terrible circumstance. Such as a traffic accident where noone was being a shithead. Or cases of honest self defense where the other person wasn’t stopping their pursuit. Or cases of prolonged domestic abuse causing someone to finally snap.