Reasons for support and advantages

- Some people believe that all guilty people need to be punished with the crime that they committed

- If they committed a murder, then they deserved to be punished with death

- "An eye for an eye." The family of the murdered need justice for what has been done, and this is the only way to get justice

- It stops these murderers from killing other innocent people in the community

- Some murders finally begin to feel remorse when they realise that they are going to face the penalty. People believe that this will help them avoid being punished in their next life

- The Japanese argument for capital punishment is that when the hard-working citizens of Japan know that people are murdered for being bad, they appreciate and feel rewarded for being good