Japan used the death penalty for the first time in almost three years on Friday when it hanged a man who killed nine people after contacting them on social media.
For strangling and dismembering eight women and one man at his residence in Zama city, Kanagawa, close to Tokyo, in 2017, Takahiro Shiraishi received a death sentence. He was referred to as the “Twitter killer” because he reached out to victims on the social media network.
Shiraishi’s hanging was approved by Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki, who stated he made the decision after giving it considerable thought and considering the prisoner’s “extremely selfish” motivation for actions that “caused great shock and unrest to society.”
It came after a guy who went on a stabbing rampage in Tokyo was executed in July 2022.
