Sengo Shikeishu Retsuden New Edition (Takarajima SUGOI Bunko)

[Machine Translation] The "Jury System" has recently started. The public must judge people not only on their guilt or innocence, but also on their sentence, including the death penalty. Is the death penalty right or wrong? Is the death penalty right or wrong? How much do we know about the death penalty itself? -The current situation is that our knowledge is fragmented and biased. This book is a questioning of the death penalty and its system through the writings of the author, a prisoner on death row who no longer has the means to speak for himself.

先般「裁判員制度」が開始された。国民が人を裁き、有罪か無罪かだけではなく、死刑を含む量刑を判断せねばならない。以前から死刑は是か?非か?といった議論が為されているが、死刑そのものについて、私たちはどの程度知っているのか?-断片的であったり、偏った知識であったりというのが現状ではなかろうか。みずからはもはや語るべき術をもたない死刑囚自身に、筆者の筆をとおして、いまあらためて死刑とその制度を問うた。