Japan is implemented by hanging a “killer Twitter” that killed 9 News penalty news

Takahiro Shiraishi was hanging to kill eight women and one man who concealed the parts of the body in his small apartment.

Japan executed a man convicted Kill and cut nine people He contacted him on social media, which is the first use of the death penalty in the country for nearly three years.

Takahiro Shiraishi was hung on Friday after he was sentenced to death for murders in eight women for the year 2017 and one man in his apartment in the city of Zama in Kanajawa near Tokyo.

It was called “Twitter Killer” because he contacted its victims via the social media platform, now known as X.

Shiraishi admitted that he was connected to killing after communicating with them and offered it to help people – who were thinking about suicide – to die. He had hidden parts of the bodies of his nine victims in cooler around his small apartment, according to media reports.

Justice Minister Kisoki Suzuki, who allowed East Sherishi, said that he made the decision after an accurate examination of the case, taking into account the “very selfish” motivation for the condemnation of the crimes that “caused a great shock in society.”

On Friday, the execution was the first in Japan since July 2022 for a man sentenced to death due to the collapse of a stabbing in the shopping area in ACADARA in Tokyo in 2008.

This was the first time that the death penalty has been carried out since the opening of the government of Prime Minister Shigro Ishiba last October.

Last September, The Japanese court acquitted Iwao HakamadaWho spent the longest time in the world in the death row. The court found that he had been mistakenly convicted of crimes for nearly 60 years.

One of the highest executions in Japan was carried out in 2018 from the teacher Shoko Ashara and 12 former members in AUM Shinrikyo Doomsday CultThat organized Sarin Gas attacks in 1995 on the subway system in Tokyo, which killed 14 people and made thousands of patients.

The death penalty is carried out by hanging in Japan, and prisoners are notified of them just hours before their implementation, which has long been criticized human rights groups because of the pressure they put on the prisoners of death.

Japan and the United States are the only members of the seven industrial economy group that maintains the death penalty.

There is a strong general support for this practice in Japan. In 2024 of 1,800 participants, a government survey found that 83 percent looked at the death penalty as “inevitable”.