FILE – Takahiro Shiraishi leaves a police station in Hachioji, suburbs of Tokyo, in November 2017.
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TOKYO — A person convicted of homicide for killing and dismembering 9 individuals in his condominium close to Tokyo was executed Friday, Japan’s Justice Ministry mentioned.
Takahiro Shiraishi, generally known as the “Twitter killer,” was sentenced to dying in 2020 for the killings in 2017 of the 9 victims, most of whom had posted suicidal ideas on social media. He was additionally convicted of sexually abusing feminine victims.
The execution was carried out as calls develop to abolish capital punishment in Japan for the reason that acquittal of the world’s longest-serving death-row inmate Iwao Hakamada final yr.
Shiraishi was hanged on the Tokyo Detention Home in excessive secrecy with nothing disclosed till the execution was performed.
Police arrested him in 2017 after discovering the our bodies of eight females and one male in cold-storage instances in his condominium.
Investigators mentioned Shiraishi approached the victims by way of Twitter, providing to help them with their suicidal needs. He killed the eight ladies, together with youngsters, after raping them, and likewise killed a boyfriend of one of many ladies to silence him.
Japan’s suicide charge ranks among the many world’s highest. Following a latest decline, the quantity has climbed again this yr as individuals had been hit by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan’s crime charge is comparatively low, but it surely has seen some high-profile mass killings lately.
