Talk:Capital punishment in Japan

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"The death penalty in Japan is noted for the extreme secrecy and (to outsiders) the apparent arbitrariness with which it is administered."

POV of AI is presented as a fact. This is not NPOV. I would transltate content from Japanese wikipedia which explain the procedure in more detail. Vapour

"Some commentators argue". Using of weasel words are discouraged. It is more NPOV to explicitly state the source of POV. Vapour

"Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and the United States are the only developed democracies in which the death penalty is legally carried out" - South Korea has a moratorium since 1998. They still have people sentenced to death, but it is not carried out.

"Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and the United States are the only developed democracies..." - Taiwan with a history of 3 competitive elections, and Singapore with the domination of a single party, can hardly be labeled "developed" democracies. Whoever decided upon THESE countries should have justified their decision on better grounds (economic development or democractic government would be easy to determine factually, however being a "developed democracy" is something up for argument and thus should not be used). See cases: Russia, India. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.250.46.184 (talk) 04:28, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

• "Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and the United States are the only developed democracies in which the death penalty is legally carried out". What about Israel? It´s a developed democracy and has abolished the death penalty for all criminal offenses, excepting genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and treason in wartime. Israel has legally carried out one execution on 1962 (Adolf Eichmann´s). - Follgramm3006, Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 20:36. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Follgramm3006 (talk • contribs) 18:37, 13 May 2008 (UTC)