Japan carries out rare execution as ‘Twitter killer’ who murdered nine people, raped the women and chopped up their bodies in house of horrors is hanged

The Japan Ministry of Justice said that a man convicted of killing and disintegrating in his apartment near Tokyo was executed on Friday.

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the ‘Twitter killer’, was sentenced to death for killing nine victims in 2017 in 2020, for publishing suicide thoughts on most social media.

He was also sentenced to sexual harassment of female victims.

In the cold storage cases in his apartment, the police arrested him after finding the bodies of eight young girls and women and the bodies of a man.

Inspectors said Shiraishi approached the victims through Twitter and offered to help under the name of ‘Hanging Pro’ in their 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 told the Emergency News Conference, “ The case caused serious consequences and a great wave of shock and discomfort to the society.

He said he had signed the execution at the beginning of this week, but he was not witnessing Shiraishi.

After the acquittal of Iwao Hakamadada, the prisoner in the world, which served in the world for the longest time last year, was held as the calls to abolish the death penalty or to increase transparency in Japan.

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the ‘Twitter killer’, was sentenced to death in 2020 for killing nine victims in 2017

Takahiro Shiraishi left a police station in November 2017 in Hachioji, Tokyo suburbs

On October 31, 2017, in Shiraishi’s apartment, the broken body parts of nine people were found in Zama, Kanagawa, Japan.

On Twitter – the social media platform, where he reached potential victims – included a manga cartoon drawing showing a man with his neck and wrist injured and wearing a rope around his neck.

Shiraishi designed himself as a brave assistant by providing a way out for those who had suicide thoughts or committed suicide and failed.

On Twitter – the social media platform, where he reached potential victims – included a manga cartoon drawing in his profile, showing a man with his neck and wrist wounded and wearing a rope around his neck.

Profile biography described his expertise and his Twitter arm was ‘@hangingPro’.

“ I want to help people who really suffer. Please always read to me.

‘Although the cases are not reported in the news, there must be many people suffering in society after trying to suicides. I want to help these people. ‘

He also worked to allow his victims to cut their ties with his friends and family members before they met them.

“It is not good to say that you’ll die before committing suicide to friends, family members and social networking sites,” he wrote in one article.

Shiraishi was hung in the Tokyo detention house in secrecy, nothing was explained until execution.

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 United States are only two countries in the group of seven leading industrialized countries (G7) holding the death penalty.

The crime rate of the Asian country is relatively low, but in recent years it has seen some high profile mass murders.

Japan’s latest execution was a man who killed seven people in a vehicle accident in a crowded Tokyo shopping zone in Akihabara in July 2022, in 2018.

During death last year, three people died while waiting for the sentence.

Journalists stand outside the Gray Tokyo Dudes House in Katsushika on November 20, 2018.

A glass window separates an imaging platform from the hood where prisoners hang

Prisoners pass through a Buddhist Kannon statue on the path associated with compassion

From the outside, the Tokyo detention house resembles other tall buildings specific to Katsushika.

It is only protected with a low -wire fence and enjoys the parks spreading with trees to mix with the surrounding landscape.

But the interior is rarely decorated and simple – a cold and dull environment for the most dangerous criminals waiting for Japan’s death penalty.

There is a creepy theater element of how the East Asian country hangs prisoners.

The execution takes place in a bright red square in front of a imaging platform separated by a large glass window and bright blue curtains.

Prisoners pass through a small sculpture of compassionate Buddhist Bodhisattva.

Rare notes from the sterile center are usually said to prisoners to take the stage on the days of execution. allegedly Families cause additional stress.

The witnesses explained their horrors in the following room, where the authorities began to drop their eyes and a hooded prisoner in a room where the medical staff confirmed the deaths and destroyed the lifeless body from the base of the execution room.

Following the punishment of a 21 -year -old Yuki Endo, who killed his parents three years ago, his parents were punished, in January 2024, Right groups are afraid of Japan’s cold and clinical execution practices will be shocked.

However, the Minister of Justice Suzuki justified the need for execution in Japan this week, a recent government research, the opposition has increased slightly, although the overwhelming majority of the people still support the death penalty, he said.

Suzuki, “I believe that the removal of the execution is not appropriate,” he said.