NewzVille International
Japan executed a man who killed nine people after contacting them on social media. This is the country’s first execution in nearly three years.
Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to death for the 2017 killings, in which he strangled and dismembered eight women and one man at his apartment in Zama city, located in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo.
Known as the “Twitter killer,” Shiraishi used the social media platform to reach out to his victims.
This marks Japan’s first execution since July 2022, when a man convicted of a 2008 stabbing spree in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. He was hanged for killing seven people.
