Japan executes ‘Twitter killer’ who killed nine

Japan executed a man who killed nine people in 2017, for the first time since 2022, that the country had accepted the death penalty.

The serial killings from Takhiro Shiraishi, Entitled “Twitter killer”He had shocked the country and caused a debate about how suicide was discussed online.

Then Shiraishi, 30 years old, lured their victims – most of them young women between the ages of 15 and 26 – in his apartment, before they were strangled and dismembered.

The killings came to light in October 2017, when police found parts of the body in the Japanese city of Zamni, near Tokyo when they were looking for one of the victims.

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Later, Shiraishi admitted that he had killed nine victims of suicide and revealed that he had met them on Twitter, the social media platform known as X.

He then told them that he could help them die, and in some cases claims that he would commit suicide with them.

His Twitter profile contained the words: “I want to help people who really experience pain. Please dm (direct message) at any time.”

Nine dismembered bodies were found in coolers and tools when the officers visited his apartment, which was called by the media as “House of Horror.”

While prosecutors sought the death penalty for Shiraishi, his lawyers argued for the less accusation of “murder with consent”, claiming that his victims had given their permission to be killed.

They also called for an assessment of his mental state.

Later, Shiraishi challenged the version of the events of his own defense team and said he had killed without the consent of the victims.

Hundreds of people appeared at his hearing in December 2020, when he was sentenced to death.

The killings have also caused a change from Twitter, which changes its rules to state consumers should not “encourage or promote suicide or self -harm.”

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