Current Events > Convicted murderer on death row dies after choking on her dinner

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https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34dya/japan-death-row-inmate-choking

A Japanese woman awaiting execution for drugging and drowning two men has died after choking on her own dinner, the countrys justice ministry said Sunday. Miyuki Ueta, a former bar worker, was eating in her cell on Saturday afternoon when she began to choke. Workers at the detention center, located in the southwestern prefecture of Hiroshima, tried to pull food out of the 49-year-olds mouth, but she had already lost consciousness, Japanese national broadcaster NHK reported. Ueta was sent to the hospital but was confirmed dead less than three hours later. She died of suffocation, the Japanese ministry of justice said. Ueta had a near miss four days before her death, when she also choked on her food and was rushed to hospital. She survived and was returned to the detention center. Ueta was sentenced in 2012 to death after being found guilty of killing two men she owed money to in 2009 in Tottori prefecture, on Japans west coast. She maintained her innocence and appealed her case, but the judge upheld her death sentence in 2017. Capital punishment remains legal in Japan and much of the rest of Asia. In Japan, prosecutors usually seek the death penalty in cases of multiple homicides or particularly egregious murders. Following Uetas death, there are now 105 people on death row in Japan.

The death penalty is broadly accepted in Japan, although international rights groups have condemned the countrys practice of hanging prisoners with just a few hours notice. Capital punishment abolitionists point to cases of wrongful convictions in which innocent people have been put on death row. One such case is Sakae Menda, who was released in 1983 after spending 34 years awaiting his execution for a double homicide he didnt commit. Iwao Hakamada, a former Japanese professional boxer, was released in 2014 after spending 48 years awaiting executionmaking him the worlds longest held death row inmateafter a court found evidence against him in a mass murder case had been falsified. In 2022, three death row inmates sued the Japanese government for hanging prisoners, Japans sole execution method. They claimed that the method of killing is inhumane and causes unnecessary suffering.

Well ain't that something.

Death note level shit

how do you choke twice in 4 days? after the first time you'd think she'd be scared of choking again for awhile so she'd take her time eating.

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creativeme posted...

how do you choke twice in 4 days? after the first time you'd think she'd be scared of choking again for awhile so she'd take her time eating.

You've never shoveled it in, choked, then kept eating?

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Her desire to eat outweighed her desire to live, I guess. Though considering her circumstances, I kinda get how that may have been the case.