Japan Hangs Twitter Killer for 2017 Serial Murders
Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter Killer,” was executed in Japan. He had been sentenced to death for killing and cutting up the bodies of nine people — eight women and one man — in 2017. The crimes happened in his apartment in Zama City, near Tokyo. He found his victims using Twitter.
Japan’s Justice Minister, Keisuke Suzuki, approved the execution. He said he made the decision carefully because Shiraishi committed the crimes for very selfish reasons, and the case deeply shocked the public.
This is the first execution under Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who took office in October last year. It also follows a 2022 execution of a man who stabbed people in Tokyo’s busy Akihabara area back in 2008.
Japan Executes ‘Twitter Killer’ for 2017 Murders
In a separate case, in September last year, a Japanese court freed Iwao Hakamada, who had spent the longest time on death row in the world after being wrongly convicted nearly 60 years ago.
In Japan, people sentenced to death are hanged. They are told only a few hours before the execution, which human rights groups criticize as very stressful.
Minister Suzuki said Japan should not stop the death penalty while such violent crimes are still happening. Right now, there are 105 people on death row in Japan.
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