‘Twitter killer’ who murdered nine in Japan reportedly executed | Japan
Japan, public broadcaster NHK and other media organizations on Friday, for the first time since 2022, the country’s death penalty, he said.
The Ministry of Justice refused to approve the hanging, but referring to government sources, NHK said that the prisoner was 34 -year -old Takahiro Shiraishi who killed nine people in 2017.
Shiraishi, called the “Twitter killer ,, was sentenced to death for killing and disintegning nine people he met on the social media platform called X.
Shiraishi is said to have mostly women’s victims between the ages of 15 and 26 into their apartment near Tokyo, killing them and cutting their bodies.
According to the media reports, he admitted that he had killed all nine, contacted his suicide victims on Twitter and offered to help them die.
Japan and the United States are only two members of the seven industrialized economic groups that protect the death penalty.
There is a great public support for the application and the 2024 Japanese government survey, which consists of 1,800 participants, showed that 83% saw the death penalty as “inevitable ..
In 2022, Tomohiro Kato hit a truck rented to a crowd in the Akihabara region of Tokyo before he went out in an attack that killed seven people.
As of December 2023, 107 prisoners expected death penalties to be executed to the AFP News Agency. It is always done by hanging.
The law predicts that the objections should be carried out within six months after a last decision after exhaustion.
However, in reality, most prisoners are left to Tenterhooks, which has caused serious consequences for their mental health for their mental health for years and sometimes for decades.
There is a widespread criticism of the system and the lack of transparency on the application of the government. At the last minute, prisoners are usually informed about their approaching deaths before they occur early in the morning.
Shoko Asahara’s high -profile executions and 12 former members of the Aum Shinrikyo apocalypse cult took place in 2018. Aum Shinrikyo organized Sarin gas attacks on Tokyo’s subway system, killed 14 people and made thousands more ill.
