Takahiro Shiraishi's victims were aged 15 to 26. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The execution by hanging of a man convicted of killing nine people in Japan comes amidst a growing debate over the country's ...

TOKYO >> Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in the country in nearly three years.

Japan yesterday 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, Japan's 'Twitter Killer', was executed on 2 July for murdering nine people in 2017 after luring them online through suicide-related messages.