I have long opposed the death penalty. At the age of eleven, I remember two young Australian men, Kevin Barlow and Brian Geoffrey (known as Geoffrey) Chambers for drug trafficking in Malaysia. That was the first time for me that I felt passionately against the death penalty. Similarly, I opposed the death penalty for Van Nguyen, and Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

Even among Nazi War Criminals and the International Military Tribunal in the Far East, there were questionable executions.

Staff Sergeant John C. Woods. who dishonestly claimed he had experience, botched several of the executions (in Julius Streicher's case, while Julius Streicher was not exactly the sort of man you'd want to invite to your house for a Sunday barbecue, he went down kicking when the trapdoor was sprung and dislodged the knot, but he was hanged for things he said and things he wrote, not things he did) that saw several of the men take a lengthy period to die.

In Japan, however, the Sugamo Seven (Doihara Kenji, Muto Akira, Tojo Hideki, Kimura Heitaroo, Itagaki Seishiro, Hirota Koki and Matsui Iwane) were executed not one by one but Doihara, Muto, Tojo and Kimura at 12:01am, and pronounced dead between 12:08am and 12:13am, and Itagaki, Hirota and Matsui dropped to their deaths shortly after 12:19am, and were pronounced dead between 12:29am and 12:35am.

Hirota's execution was the most illogical and one that even the prosecutor, Joe Keenan, revered as Joe The Key by Roosevelt but derided as a drunk, by others, blasted as stupid.

Far too often, people have been executed and been found to have been wrongfully so. I, too, would like to see the USA abolish the death penalty. As we saw in the last days of Donny Shit's time, he refused to stop the execution of a woman with an intellectual disability (most likely as a vengeful act).