She made it clear on the day she announced it. She commuted all death sentences to life imprisonment. Now the people are confused because of all the varieties added into it. But whatever it is, the government should implement the law.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

If lawmakers propose lifetime imprisonment as an alternative to the death penalty, the Japanese public is not likely to reject it.

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fra

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

We will charge him for obstruction of justice and cover up.