Takahiro Shiraishi was hanged on Friday following his death sentence for the 2017 killings of eight women and one man in his Kanagawa apartment.
He was nicknamed the “Twitter killer” because he had spoken to his victims on the now-defunct X-Face social media platform.
Shiraishi confessed to killing the victims after reaching out and offering to assist those who were putting their lives on hold. According to reports from the media, he had concealed fragments of the bodies of his nine victims in coolers around his tiny apartment.
Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki, who authorized Shiraishi’s hanging, said he made the decision after considering the case and taking into account the convict’s “extremely selfish” motivation for crimes that “caused great shock and unrest to society.”
The man who was given a death sentence for a stabbing rampage in Tokyo’s Akihabara shopping district’s Akihabara shopping district’s 2008 execution on Friday was the first to be executed there since July 2022.
The death penalty was used for the first time since Shigeru Ishiba’s government’s inauguration in October, according to the introduction.
Iwao Hakamada, who had spent the longest time in the world on death row, was cleared by a Japanese court in September. He was found guilty of crimes committed nearly 60 years ago, according to the court.
The guru Shoko Asahara and 12 former members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, who planned the 1995 sarin gas attacks on Tokyo’s subway system, which killed 14 people and injured thousands, were executed in one of the most well-known executions in Japan in 2018.
In Japan, prisoners are executed just hours before the execution, which has long been condemned by human rights organizations because of the strain it places on death-row prisoners, by hanging.
The death penalty is still in place in Japan and the United States, the only industrialized nations in the group of seven.
Source: Aljazeera
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