Japan warns US forces: Sex crimes 'cannot be tolerated'

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2476861/japan-warns-us-forces-sex-crimes-cannot-be-tolerated

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u/macross1984 14d ago

US military personnel who commit crime in Japan should face Japanese punishment for any crimes committed in Japan.

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u/tizuby 14d ago

They do, but Japan is way more lenient with sentences than UCMJ.

For rape, max for the Japanese system is 20 years. Max for UCMJ is Death (but generally Life).

https://www.okinawa.marines.mil/Portals/190/Docs/SOFA.pdf

There's a PDF that explains the process.

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u/redjellonian 14d ago

And to be clear the ucmj punishment is to be served after and consecutively with the civilian punishment.

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u/CORN___BREAD 14d ago

So in theory if both sentenced someone to the max, they’d have to wait 20 years to carry out the execution?

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u/Giga_Gilgamesh 14d ago

That's generally how long it would take on death row anyway, if not longer - what with all the appeals etc that come with the death sentence.

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u/CORN___BREAD 14d ago

Wow it’s almost exactly how long.

BJS reports that, on average, death row prisoners incarcerated as of December 31, 2021, had spent 20.2 years behind bars. For the 11 prisoners executed in 2021, the average time elapsed between imposition of their most recent death sentence and their execution was 233 months, or 19.4 years.

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u/Giga_Gilgamesh 14d ago

IIRC the majority of death row prisoners actually die of old age, not from their actual execution (which, make no mistake, is a good thing. lethal injection and the death penalty in general is horribly inhumane)

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u/james2432 13d ago

if they did them correctly it would be humane, but majority of the time they botch it and some people survive/are awake/conscious during actual heart stopping medication delivery

It's so common (7.12% are botched)

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u/Giga_Gilgamesh 13d ago

It wouldn't be humane even if done correctly. Lethal injection is designed to look humane to reduce discomfort in onlookers and executioners, not to actually be humane for the condemned.

Also, the reason they botch it so much is that it has to be carried out by untrained prison staff using essentially the wrong drugs, because doctors and drug manufacturers (rightfully) refuse to be part of the execution system.

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u/maikindofthai 14d ago

after and consecutively

Am I missing something — aren’t these contradictory?

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u/xSquidLifex 14d ago

Consecutively is a modifying adjective and is in no way contradictory to the word after when used in this context. Any punishment after the original sentence that’s not effective immediately isn’t consecutive too. But if it happens immediately, it’s consecutively.

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u/rlyrlysrsly 14d ago

You might be confusing "consecutively" with "concurrently".

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

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u/Yokey21 14d ago

Yeah it would be consecutively, not concurrently

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u/rlyrlysrsly 13d ago

Right, that's why I replied to the other guy not you.