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Date
2009-09-15
Actor
Menda, Sakae
Source
Independent
Uploaded date
2010-01-20
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Conditions on Death Row

Inmates are deprived of contact with the outside world, kept in solitary confinement and forced to wait an average of more than seven years, and sometimes decades, in toilet-sized cells while the legal system grinds on. When the order eventually comes, the condemned have literally minutes to get their affairs in order before facing the noose. Because the order can come at any time, they live each day believing it may be their last ...
Sakae Menda
Japanese death row inmate who received a moratorium at the age of 54 and was released from prison in 1983 after 34 years of incarceration, as paraphrased by David McNeill in an interview for The Independent.

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