TOKYO >> Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in the country in nearly three years.

Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged after murdering nine people — eight of whom were young women he targeted after they ...

Japan has executed a man convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo. Takahiro Shiraishi, ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, the so-called "Twitter Killer", was sentenced to death in 2020 for murdering ... As is standard practice in Japan, the execution was carried out in secrecy and not disclosed until ...

Japan has carried out its first execution since 2022, hanging Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the "Twitter Killer," who murdered nine people in 2017. The case reignites debate over Japan’s use of the ...

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 ...

Tokyo (CNN) — Japan executed on Friday a man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly women, after contacting them on social media ...

Law Japan hangs ‘Twitter killer’ in rare execution. Eight years on from the shocking crimes, convicted murderer Takahiro Shiraishi was subject to capital punishment.

Takahiro Shiraishi-- dubbed the "Twitter killer"-- strangled eight women and one man to death in 2017 ... Japan's last execution took place in July 2022, ...

Japan executed a 34-year-old death row inmate known as the "Twitter Killer," who was convicted of killing nine people at his apartment south of Tokyo in 2017.

Japan hangs 'Twitter killer' in first execution since 2022. Kantaro Komiya. Fri, June 27, ... It followed the execution in July 2022 of a man who went on a stabbing rampage in Tokyo's shopping ...