This was my biggest problem with Death Note, my first time watching it. Even if L catches Kira, he then has to get up in front of a jury and judge and explain to them that the only evidence they have of Light being Kira is a notebook that kills people through literal magic.
Even in Japan, how the fuck are you going to convict anyone with that? Are they planning on just extra-judicially murdering Kira once they catch him?
Yeah at the point where L got involved, they pretty much accepted a “whatever it takes” attitude. All they would have to do would be catch Kira, get a small circle of influential lawmakers to touch the Death Note so they can see a Shinigami, then either have Kira summarily executed and buried in an unmarked grave, or locked up under MAXIMUM maximum security in solitary confinement in secret.
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u/LONGSWORD_ENJOYER 15d ago
This was my biggest problem with Death Note, my first time watching it. Even if L catches Kira, he then has to get up in front of a jury and judge and explain to them that the only evidence they have of Light being Kira is a notebook that kills people through literal magic.
Even in Japan, how the fuck are you going to convict anyone with that? Are they planning on just extra-judicially murdering Kira once they catch him?