Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the "Twitter killer" who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation's first enactment of the death penalty since 2022. Takahiro Shiraishi, ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the "Twitter killer", was sentenced to death in 2020 for the 2017 killings of the nine victims, who he also dismembered in his apartment near Tokyo.

"It is not appropriate to abolish the death penalty while these violent crimes are still being committed," Suzuki told a press conference. There are currently 105 death row inmates in Japan, he added.

Japan’s most recent execution occurred in July 2022, when a man convicted of killing seven people during a vehicle and stabbing rampage in Tokyo's busy Akihabara district in 2018 was put to death.

A man who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, has been executed in Japan, in the country's first enactment of the death penalty since 2022.

Although Japan's crime rate is relatively low, it has experienced several high-profile mass killings in recent years. Shiraishi is reported to have enticed his victims, primarily women aged ...

Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation’s first enactment of the death penalty since 2022.

'Twitter Killer' who Raped and Murdered 8 Young Women — Then Kept Their Mutilated Remains as Trophies — Is Executed Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged after murdering nine people — eight of ...

Japan has executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly women, in the country’s first use of capital punishment in nearly ...

Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the "Twitter killer" who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation's first enactment of the death penalty since 2022.

Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation’s first enactment of the death penalty since 2022.

A Japanese man dubbed the “Twitter killer” was sentenced to death by a Tokyo court Tuesday for murdering and dismembering nine people he met on the social media platform. Takahiro Shiraishi ...