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Takahiro Shiraishi was hanged for the murders of eight women and a man he hid the parts of the body in his little apartment.
Japan has executed a man who was found guilty of Kill and dismember nine people He contacted social media, the first use of capital punishment in the country in almost three years.
Takahiro Shiraishi was hanged on Friday after being sentenced to death for the murders of eight women from 2017 and a man in his apartment in Zama City in Kanagawa near Tokyo.
He was nicknamed the “Twitter killer” because he had contacted his victims via the social media platform, now known as X.
Shiraishi admitted to having committed the murders after teny hands and offered to help people – who were considering suicide – to die. He had hidden pieces of body of his nine victims in coolers around his small apartment, according to the media.
The Minister of Justice, Keisuke Suzuki, who authorized the suspension of Shraishi, said that he had made the decision after a careful examination of the case, taking into account the “extremely selfish” reason for the condemned for the crimes which “caused a big shock and unrest for society”.
On Friday, the execution was the first in Japan since July 2022 of a man sentenced to death for a stab -off in the shopping district of Akihabara in Tokyo in 2008.
It was also the first time that the death penalty had been imposed since the government of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba was inaugurated last October.
Last September, a The Japanese Court acquitted Iwao Hakamadawho had spent the most time in the world in the death corridor. The court concluded that he was wrongly sentenced for crimes committed almost 60 years ago.
One of the most prominent executions in Japan was carried out in 2018 by Guru Shoko Asahara and 12 former members of the Alms shinrikyo doomsday cultwhich orchestrated the 1995 Sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo metro system which killed 14 people and returned thousands of people.
The capital punishment is exercised by the suspension in Japan, and the prisoners are informed of their execution a few hours before its realization, which has long been criticized by human rights groups for the stress he puts on the prisoners of the department.
Japan and the United States are the only two members of the group of seven industrialized economies to maintain the death penalty.
There is a strong public support for practice in Japan. A government survey in 2024 of 1,800 respondents found that 83% considered the death penalty as “inevitable”.
