Does Japan have capital punishment?

[Mike Cash]

They also have lethal injection and electric chair. I think the chair is the most common, but I'm not sure. As an aside, I'm predicting that the US army brat who just killed a woman in Kanagawa(?) is about to get a first hand look at Japanese corporal punishment.

I must have missed this thread the first time around.

Are you saying that Japan has lethal injection and the electric chair? If so, that is incorrect. Japan uses hanging, done in an appallingly inept fashion.

[hyperconjugated]

Are you saying that Japan has lethal injection and the electric chair? If so, that is incorrect. Japan uses hanging, done in an appallingly inept fashion.

I guess it's a dying art. People these days couldn't hang even to save a life.

[furrykef]

Groan.

[Mike Cash]

Are you saying that Japan has lethal injection and the electric chair? If so, that is incorrect. Japan uses hanging, done in an appallingly inept fashion.

I guess it's a dying art. People these days couldn't hang even to save a life.

Thank you, Henny Youngman.

[hyperconjugated]

Thank you, Henny Youngman.

I'm an ardent fan of the "take my wife, please" bit.

[AJBryant]

Well, depending on what she looks like....

[Infidel]

Thank you, Henny Youngman.

I'm an ardent fan of the "take my wife, please" bit.

When I was in middle school, I read a Sci-fi novel where the main character was trying to get off the Earth because everyone was stupid. Every day they would watch the same shows with the same jokes, and laugh no matter how many times they said, "Take my wife, please." Interestingly, it didn't have a happy end. Most sci-fi books then had rather macabre endings IIRC. I always wondered if that was an actual RL reference.

[furrykef]

The thing with "Take my wife, please" is that it was actually a very funny and original joke at the time. Then it got run into the ground so much that it's used as an archetypal example of a bad/corny joke.