Jueves, 13 de noviembre de 2025:
In the evening, I watched the following short film in a Japanese-style room.
It was on an external hard drive connected to a DIGA (Panasonic BLU-RAY RECORDER, manufactured in 2017). It was broadcast on BS12 from 8:15 PM on October 2, 2025.
SHORT FILM THEATER "November 1st" (UK, 2019. 25 minutes long. Original language: English, Japanese subtitles).
An excellent film. As we'd expect from a British film. The lead actress's acting skills are on par with those of a master actress, making her seem like someone truly mentally ill due to PTSD. The structure is also superb. Britain continues to produce excellent short films.
The film is set in America. The protagonist suffers from PTSD and takes tranquilizers (sedatives). It made me think that perhaps psychotherapy is more important than medication.
Will avenging one's grudge and finding satisfaction allow one to get one's life back? Will the death penalty for the perpetrator bring solace to the victims' relatives, allowing them to live the rest of their lives in peace and meaning?
This film delves into issues both old and new.
The following are some of the death sentences and executions that made headlines this year.
The incident in which 36 people were killed at Kyoto Animation astonished Japanese anime fans around the world.
Incendie criminel de Kyoto Animation
Japan: Man sentenced to death for Kyoto anime fire which killed 36
25 January 2024
in Singapore and Tokyo
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68090388
※ In February of this year (2025), the defendant withdrew his appeal, and the death sentence handed down in the first trial was upheld.
Hanging of Zama Killer is Japan’s First Execution Since 2022
Society Politics Jun 27, 2025
The execution of serial killer Shiraishi Takahiro on June 27, 2025, was Japan’s first use of capital punishment for nearly three years.
He murdered nine people in 2017 in Zama, Kanagawa.
From August to October 2017, Shiraishi lured victims to his apartment after getting to know them via social media. He sexually assaulted and strangled them before taking their money and dismembering the bodies.
The execution is the first since that of Katō Tomohiro on July 26, 2022, for a 2008 stabbing spree in Akihabara, Tokyo.
(© Jiji.)
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02460/
Japan executes 'Twitter killer' who murdered nine
27 June 2025
BBC News, Singapore
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y05dk2p92o
Bangladesh's ousted leader Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death
18 November 2025
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwvg99e8vdo
UN experts condemn 'staggering scale' of executions in Iran
30 September 2025
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgn078zlgro
【Breaking News】 Masanori Aoki (34) Sentenced to Death [Nagano, Nakano City Four-Person Murder Case] Nagano District Court Lay Judge Trial | TBS NEWS DIG
Shinetsu Broadcasting Co.
October 14, 2025 (Tue) 14:07
The Nagano District Court handed down the death sentence in a lay judge trial for the murder of four people, including a local resident and a police officer, in Nakano City, Nagano Prefecture.
Masanori Aoki (34), a farmer from Nakano City, is accused of using a hunting rifle and a knife to murder four people, including two female neighbors who were out walking near his home and two male police officers who responded to the scene, on May 25, 2023.
Both the prosecution and defense argued that Aoki's motive was influenced by delusions that he had been called "Botti" or "Kimoi," meaning "alone."
https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/2226885?display=1
Excerpt
Principled figure behind France's abolition of the death penalty inaugurated in the Panthéon. He will die in 2024.
October 10, 2025, 6:49 AM
[Kyodo News, Paris]
On October 9th of this year, Robert Badinter, a key figure in France's abolition of the death penalty in 1981 and who passed away in February 2024 at the age of 95, was enshrined in the Panthéon, France's national hall of fame in Paris. He was praised as "a man who inherited the spirit of the French Revolution" (Presidential Office) for promoting fundamental reform.
Badinter served as Minister of Justice under the Mitterrand administration and achieved the abolition of the death penalty. He continued to work on the international abolition movement for many years until his later years. President Macron said at the ceremony on the 9th, "He lived a life of justice. He made humanity more free."
To carry on Badinter's legacy, France will host the World Conference Against the Death Penalty in Paris in 2026.
His books, translated into Japanese, include "Execution."
(Kyodo News)
https://www.okinawatimes.co.jp/articles/-/1688616
Excerpt
Iran reportedly executed at least 901 people in 2024, UN says
7 January 2025
BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ced8qw8q62jo
Japan death row prisoners sue government to stop hangings
29 November 2022
Getty Images Bars of a prison cellGetty Images
Hanging is currently the sole means of execution under Japan's penal code
Three death row prisoners in Japan are taking the government to court as they fight to end the practice of execution by hanging.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63791442
Public Execution of Murderer in Afghanistan. "Retribution" by Victim's Family
December 3, 2025, 9:12 AM Source: [Afghanistan, Asia/Oceania]
[December 3, AFP]
On December 2, the Taliban interim government in Afghanistan publicly executed a man convicted of murder and sentenced to "retribution" (i.e., to receive the same injury as the victim. In this case, the perpetrator shot the victim, so he will be executed by firing squad) for the crime. Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Afghanistan, condemned the execution as "inhumane."
Witnesses told AFP that the victim's family shot the man three times at a stadium in Khost, eastern Afghanistan, as thousands looked on.
Authorities had called for people to witness the public execution on December 1.
On the 2nd, before the public execution, Special Rapporteur Bennett stated on social media that such acts are "inhuman, cruel, and unusual punishment that violates international law" and "these practices must stop." (c)AFP
https://www.afpbb.com/articles/-/3611906
Japanese version. Excerpt
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