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
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
Not if retribution is purely transactional. It’s not like rape can be accidental, nor premeditated murder.
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.
Yeah, my bad for not including that in the original comment, but that’s what I meant
It’s alright, qualifying everything fully is a huge PITA. There are two sides to the “don’t assume” thing.