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Vanayo@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world ·
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The United Nations held a vote on the death penalty. This is how countries voted

worldcoalition.org

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The United Nations held a vote on the death penalty. This is how countries voted

worldcoalition.org

Vanayo@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world ·
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Source: UN.org

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  • MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk
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    The headline makes it sound like the “in favour” votes were for death penalty, which is not correct. This was a vote for a moratorium - a temporary suspension - of death penalty.

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      This now makes more sense. The headline did a shitty job

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      Omg thank you for the explanation I was real worried there for a second

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        I was wondering how we are somehow in favour when we don’t even have it.

        (op is a cunt Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi)

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        If it makes the United States look good it has to be wrong

    • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Thank you I was very confused seeing many of these countries “against”

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      The only people who were confused are the ones who didn’t actually read the diagram.

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        That’s no excuse for a misleading headline.

        • crypt0cler1c@infosec.pub
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          It’s not misleading at all…

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      Yeah I came here to ask about this, because Brazil voting in favor of the death penalty when it doesn’t have it did set off some alarms for me

      • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca
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        Thought the same looking up Canada.

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          17 days ago

          New Zealand and Iceland lol

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    Seems like the dudes in favor of the death penalty seem to be the usual suspects… And then there’s Japan, who straight up went

    for no discernible fuckin reason LOL

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      Japan is a country that frequently practices the death penalty.

      • Sal@lemmy.world
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        I’d think that a country that is extremely safe wouldn’t need it anyways…

      • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Really? I did not know that. Gotta look into that

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          You’d think it would involve katanas and beheading or something like you’d see in the movies. Nope, hanging. The Japanese death penalty is typically hanging. Wild, I know. No swords involved. Sorry if this ruins your Monday. I know I was disappointed. Sometimes movies lie, though.

          • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            I didnt know japan still had the death penalty in the first place

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      Death Note would have a gash plot if Japan didn’t like a bit of punishment that wasn’t compatible with life.

      Admittedly, I’d be much more likely to write in the Inconvenient Note so arseholes would find themselves wearing wet socks every day; encounter people who never finish their sentences; have to find a towel lying about the house before showering; or have every underfoot surface feel like a box of Lego.

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      the Japanese state doesn’t want to ban the death penalty for the same reason why it celebrates the genocides it committed against its neighbors. it’s a very useful tool to keep people passive against its abuses

      • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Where does japan celebrate it?

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          https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/E3F9191B1AC1C19D724EF0BA82AF143E/S1557466013016793a.pdf/abe-shinzo-japans-new-prime-minister-a-far-right-denier-of-history.pdf

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            That is a few people not the entire nation. There are also 25% supporting fashists and nazis in germany, brits that support their empire, russians that also want stalin back, that is different than state supported things like that like in all of china enjoying propaganda against japan, america and south korea from childhood, or in USA where they teach slavery being a good thing and not killing the natives

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              ask the average Japanese what they think should be done about the Korean minority of Japan and there you have your answer. xenophobia and chauvinism is commonplace, the fascist PM wouldn’t have won the election otherwise

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              the Japanese state doesn’t want to ban the death penalty for the same reason why it celebrates the genocides

              That is a few people not the entire nation.

              That’s the prime minister, the head of government.

      • That Weird Vegan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        fun fact: the japanese death row inmates only get 1-2 hours notice of their execution. They wake up every morning not knowing if today is the day they die. I think that’d be so torturous.

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          sounds very similar to the American system

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    The title is highly misleading OP, please correct.

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    What would be interesting is whether there are any countries that voted differently from what they currently do (ie countries that have the death penalty but voted for a moratorium, or the other way round).

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