{"id":35095,"date":"2025-06-27T11:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/japan-executes-man-dubbed-the-twitter-killer-convicted-serial-killer-who-murdered-and-dismembered-9-people\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:04:54","slug":"japan-executes-man-dubbed-the-twitter-killer-convicted-serial-killer-who-murdered-and-dismembered-9-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/japan-executes-man-dubbed-the-twitter-killer-convicted-serial-killer-who-murdered-and-dismembered-9-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan executes man dubbed the &#8220;Twitter killer,&#8221; convicted serial killer who murdered and dismembered 9 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/twitter-killer-serial-killer-sentenced-to-death-japan\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;Twitter killer&#8221;<\/a><\/span> who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation&#8217;s first enactment of the death penalty since 2022.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/chilling-details-emerge-as-suspected-japan-serial-killer-is-questioned\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Takahiro Shiraishi<\/a><\/span>, 34, was hanged for killing his young victims, all but one of whom were women, after contacting them on the social media platform now called X.<\/p>\n<p>He had targeted users who posted about taking their own life, telling them he could help them in their plans, or even die alongside them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c5y05dk2p92o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to the BBC<\/a>, his Twitter profile contained the words: &#8220;I want to help people who are really in pain. Please DM [direct message] me anytime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He killed the three teenage girls and five women after raping them. He also killed the boyfriend of one of the women to silence him, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki said Shiraishi&#8217;s crimes, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nine-dismembered-bodies-found-in-japan-apartment\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">carried out in 2017<\/a><\/span>, included &#8220;robbery, rape, murder&#8230; destruction of a corpse and abandonment of a corpse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nine victims were beaten and strangled, killed, robbed, and then mutilated with parts of their bodies concealed in boxes, and parts discarded in a garbage dump,&#8221; Suzuki told reporters in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2020\/12\/15\/48841cb5-5579-4a06-973f-5bc76bfb5d05\/thumbnail\/620x460g8\/880ccfc3bc7dc70dd9553a8c05e8ad32\/2020-12-15t082335z-1618333166-rc2knk9yu4je-rtrmadp-3-japan-murder-death-penalty.jpg#\" alt=\"Takahiro Shiraishi covers his face inside a police car in Tokyo \" height=\"460\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2020\/12\/15\/48841cb5-5579-4a06-973f-5bc76bfb5d05\/thumbnail\/620x460g8\/880ccfc3bc7dc70dd9553a8c05e8ad32\/2020-12-15t082335z-1618333166-rc2knk9yu4je-rtrmadp-3-japan-murder-death-penalty.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2020\/12\/15\/48841cb5-5579-4a06-973f-5bc76bfb5d05\/thumbnail\/1240x920g8\/ffafa6670407ef596eb748aa6f1c9b84\/2020-12-15t082335z-1618333166-rc2knk9yu4je-rtrmadp-3-japan-murder-death-penalty.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Takahiro Shiraishi covers his face inside a police car in Tokyo, in this photo taken by Kyodo November 2017 and released by Kyodo December 15, 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                KYODO \/ REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nine dismembered bodies were found in coolers and tool boxes when officers visited his flat, which was dubbed by media outlets as a &#8220;house of horrors,&#8221; the BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>Shiraishi acted to satisfy &#8220;his own sexual and financial desires&#8221; and the murders &#8220;caused great shock and anxiety to society,&#8221; Suzuki said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After much careful consideration, I ordered the execution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Japan and the United States are the only two G7 countries to still use capital punishment, and there is strong support for the practice among the Japanese public, surveys show.<\/p>\n<p>There was one execution in 2022, three in 2021, three in 2019 and 15 in 2018, the justice ministry told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Shiraishi was sentenced to death in 2020 for the murders of his nine victims, aged between 15 and 26.<\/p>\n<p>After luring them to his small home near the capital, he stashed parts of their bodies around the apartment in coolers and toolboxes sprinkled with cat litter in a bid to hide the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyers had argued Shiraishi should receive a prison sentence rather than be executed because his victims had expressed suicidal thoughts and so had consented to die.<\/p>\n<p>But a judge dismissed that argument, calling Shiraishi&#8217;s crimes &#8220;cunning and cruel&#8221;, reports said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The dignity of the victims was trampled upon,&#8221; the judge had said, adding that Shiraishi had preyed upon people who were &#8220;mentally fragile&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The grisly murders were discovered in autumn 2017 by police investigating the disappearance of a 23-year-old woman who had reportedly tweeted about wanting to kill herself.<\/p>\n<p>Her brother gained access to her Twitter account and eventually led police to Shiraishi&#8217;s residence, where investigators found dismembered body parts.<\/p>\n<h2>Executions in Japan<\/h2>\n<p>Executions are always done by hanging in Japan, where around 100 death row prisoners are waiting for their sentences to be carried out.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half are seeking a retrial, Suzuki said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Executions are carried out in secrecy, where prisoners are not even informed of their fate until the morning of their hanging, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese law stipulates that executions must be carried out within six months of a verdict after appeals are exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, however, most inmates are left on tenterhooks in solitary confinement for years, and sometimes decades.<\/p>\n<p>There is widespread criticism of the system and the government&#8217;s lack of transparency over the practice.<\/p>\n<p>Shiraishi&#8217;s execution was the first under Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba&#8217;s administration, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2025\/06\/27\/japan\/crime-legal\/prisoner-on-death-row-executed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Japan Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tomohiro-kato-executed-japan-hangs-man-who-killed-7-tokyo-street-rampage-2008\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Tomohiro Kato was hanged<\/a><\/span> for an attack that killed seven people in 2008, when he rammed a rented two-ton truck into a crowd in Tokyo and went on a stabbing spree.<\/p>\n<p>The <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/shoko-asahara-aum-shinrikyo-members-executed-today-sarin-tokyo-subway-attack-2018-07-06\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">high-profile executions<\/a><\/span> of the guru Shoko Asahara and 12 former members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult took place in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Aum Shinrikyo orchestrated the 1995 sarin gas attacks on Tokyo&#8217;s subway system, killing 14 people and sickening thousands more.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>If you or someone you know is in emotional distress or suicidal crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/japan-executes-twitter-killer-takahiro-shiraishi-serial-killer\/tel:1-800-273-TALK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1-800-273-TALK<\/a>\u00a0(8255).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about mental health care resources and support, The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) HelpLine can be reached Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.\u20136 p.m. ET, at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/japan-executes-twitter-killer-takahiro-shiraishi-serial-killer\/tel:1-800-950-NAMI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1-800-950-NAMI<\/a>\u00a0(6264) or 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