Japan executes man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering 9 people in his apartment
Tokyo (AP) – A man convicted of murder killing and smashing nine people Japan’s Ministry of Justice said he was executed in his apartment near Tokyo on Friday.
Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter killer” He was sentenced to death in 2020 In 2017, nine victims who publish suicide thoughts on most social media for murders. Female victims were also sentenced to sexual harassment.
The police arrested him after finding a man in cold storage cases in his apartment, as well as the bodies of eight young girls and women.
Inspectors said Shiraishi approached the victims through Twitter and offered to help them in suicide requests. After raping them, he killed three young girls and five women. He also killed one of the women’s boyfriend to silence him.
Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki said to an emergency news conference, “The case caused extremely serious consequences and gave a great wave of shock and discomfort to the society. He said that he signed the execution at the beginning of this week, but he did not witness Shiraishi’s hanging.
After the acquittal of the world’s longest death order prisoner in the world, the calls were made to remove the death penalty or to increase transparency in Japan. IWAO HAVE last year.
Suzuki justified the need for execution in Japan, a recent government research, despite the increase in the opposition slightly, the overwhelming majority of the people still support the death penalty, he said.
Orum I believe that the abolition of the execution is not appropriate, Suz Suzuki said, there are increasing concerns about serious crimes.
Shiraishi was hung at the Tokyo Dudes House, which was confidential without any disclosure until execution was executed.
Suzuki said that Japan had 105 people, including 49 people, during death.
Executions are carried out in Privacy in Japan, where prisoners were not even aware of their destiny until the hanging mornings.
Since 2007, Japan has begun to explain some details of the names and crimes of those who were executed, but the statements are still limited.
Japan and the US are only two countries of seven leading industrialized countries that hold the death penalty.
Japan’s latest execution was a man in July 2022, who killed seven people in a vehicle accident and stabbed the ramp in a crowded Tokyo shopping zone. Akihabara in 2018.
Japan’s crime rate is relatively low, but in recent years it has seen some high -profile mass murders.
