In ancient times, there was a lot of torture, if a person committed an unforgivable crime, need to be sentenced to death, but also according to the severity of the crime will be different ways of death, such as car cracking, Ling Chi and other execution methods are more cruel in the death penalty, can make the prisoner feel the greatest pain and fear before dying.
As history progressed, some cruel punishments were gradually abolished. In modern times, people's respect for individual life has gradually increased, and out of humanitarianism, death row inmates are usually executed by firing squad, killed with one shot, and even the most heinous prisoners are often able to die a more dignified death.
But in 1946, there was an exception, when law enforcement officers could not help but "vent their anger" and run out of bullets when they executed the death row prisoner Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi.
In the face of such a "cruel and bloody" scene, the onlookers clapped their hands and applauded. What is the identity of this Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi, and what crime did he commit to end up like this?
War criminals invading China, ordinary "slaughterers"
Throughout the ages, China has experienced countless wars in history, and the Japanese invasion of China is undoubtedly the most hated and humiliated period of history in the hearts of all Chinese.
Because the Japanese pointed the tip of the knife at every ordinary Chinese, hundreds of thousands of innocent Chinese lost their lives.
The brutal slaughter of the Japanese army was inhumane, and these Japanese troops who had committed heinous crimes after the war were also punished as they deserved.
In the Nanjing Massacre, the perpetrators of felonies were usually the officer leaders of the Japanese army, such as two Japanese lieutenants Noda Takeshi and Xiang Jing, who had engaged in a "killing contest".
But in addition to these notorious officers, there was an ordinary Japanese gendarme, whose name was not known to many people, but his level of cruelty was "among the best" in the Japanese army, and this person was Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi.
The gendarmerie unit of the Japanese army was composed of a "third-rate unit" during World War II, and Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi, as a gendarme, had a very ordinary status in the Japanese army, but it was such an ordinary gendarme who became the most brutal "slaughterer" in the Nanjing Massacre.
When Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi came to Nanjing, he brought a group of wolfhounds of his own training, which had been fed human flesh and were fierce, and Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi locked them up with the captured people of Nanjing, many of whom died under the fangs and were eaten by wolfhounds.
The weak eat the strong, and the growth environment that destroys humanity
If some Japanese troops were forced to participate in wars and massacres, then Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi was completely out of his own selfish desires, and his heart was eager to kill, and even took the initiative to apply for transfer from the northeast to the "battlefield" in Nanjing to satisfy his desire to slaughter.
Under normal circumstances, as a human being, there should be a minimum of reverence for the life of the same kind, disregarding life and playing with life is a deformed mentality, and the formation of this mentality, in addition to innate factors, also has a lot to do with the acquired growth environment.
Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi grew up on a very backward island in Japan, where resources are scarce and chaotic, and people can only compete for resources if they want to survive, so the living environment of the weak and the strong is completely different from the current civilized society, as if it is a realistic version of "PUBG".
In such an environment, Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi has believed in "the strong as the king" since he was a child, and being fierce enough is the way to survive.
As a human being, under the survival law of animal nature, Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi's humanity was completely destroyed, becoming a "humanoid beast" who regarded human life as a grass.
Since entering the battlefield in early 1904, Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi has constantly gained pleasure from killing, and even compared with the battlefield fight, the ordinary people who unilaterally "crush" the power of the chicken without the power of the chicken can make Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi feel more satisfied.
Good and evil are rewarded, and attachment at the end of life is not realized
In the Nanjing Massacre, there were countless people who were tortured to death by Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi, and he often led wolfhounds to the streets, causing chaos and death among the crowds, while he silently "admired" himself. The war gave Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi the opportunity to massacre wantonly, but the war would eventually stop and all crimes would be tried.
In 1945, Japan surrendered, and the once arrogant and brutal Japanese army became unforgivable war criminals.
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East tried World War II war criminals, and at the request of the Chinese Nationalist Government, the war criminals from the Nanjing Massacre were extradited to China to be tried and sanctioned by China at the Nanjing Military Tribunal. Mitsuyoshi Tsurumaru was sentenced to death without a doubt.
While waiting for death in prison, Mitsuyoshi Tsurumaru once thought about committing suicide, but in the end he was unable to do anything to himself. Before he died, he did not have any remorse, and even shouted "Long live the emperor" on the execution ground.
Everyone in Nanjing hated Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi, a brutal Japanese army who committed a deep crime, and the executioners could not help but feel sad and indignant in their hearts, firing several shots in a row and shooting out all the bullets. And Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi's tragic death did not arouse anyone's sympathy, because he deserved it.
epilogue:
The biggest difference between man and beast is "human nature", human nature is an innate thing, but sadly, sometimes because of environmental factors, some people will gradually lose their humanity and become a "beast" that ignores legal rules and ignores the same kind of life. Perhaps human self-control will disappear, but law and justice will never be absent, and all criminal acts will be punished.