Japan performs ‘Twitter killer’, which killed and quartered 9 people

Takahiro Shiraishi was hanged for killing and quartering people who posted in the current X comments about taking their lives after offering them help. It was the first application of the death penalty in the country since 2022. Takahiro Shiraishi, in a photo of 2017. Kyodo News/AP Photo via DW Japan executed on Friday (27) a man nicknamed “Twitter killer”, condemned for murdering and quartering nine people he met over the internet. This was the first application of the death penalty in the country since 2022. Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged for killing his young victims, of whom all one, were women, after contacting them on the social media platform now called X. ✅ Click here to follow the G1 international news channel on Whatsapp he had the target people who posted comments about taking their own life, telling them that they could help them in their own. plans, or even die beside them. Japanese Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki said Shiraishi’s crimes, committed in 2017, included theft, rape, murder and concealment. “Nine victims were beaten and strangled, killed, stolen and then mutilated, with parts of their bodies hidden in boxes and parts discarded in a garbage deposit,” Suzuki told reporters in Tokyo, adding that Shiraishi acted to satisfy “their own sexual and financial desires” and that the murders “caused great shock and anxiety.” “After much careful consideration, I ordered the execution,” said the minister. Japan and the United States are the only two G7 countries that still use capital punishment, and there is strong support for the practice among the Japanese public, according to research. There was an execution in 2022, three in 2021, three in 2019 and 15 in 2018, the Japan Ministry of Justice told the AFP news agency. Victims were between 15 and 26 years old Shiraishi was sentenced to death in 2020 for the murders of his nine victims, aged 15 to 26 years. After attracting them to his apartment near the Japanese capital, he was sexually assaulted them and strangled them, hid parts of his bodies through the apartment in refrigerators and sand-filled tool boxes for cat in an attempt to hide the evidence. His lawyers argued that Shiraishi should receive a prison sentence instead of being executed because his victims had expressed suicidal thoughts and therefore consented to die. But a judge rejected this argument, calling Shiraishi’s crimes “cruel”, according to reports of the time. “The dignity of the victims was trampled,” said the judge, adding that Shiraishi had taken advantage of people who were “mentally fragile.” The murders were discovered in the second half of 2017, when police were investigating the disappearance of a 23 -year -old woman who, according to reports, had tweeted about wanting to kill herself. Her brother obtained access to the girl’s account on Twitter and eventually took the police to Shiraishi’s residence, where investigators found parts of their dismembered body. Queen of the Netherlands ‘imitates’ Trump Death Penalty The execution was the first under the government of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and occurs as questions about the death penalty in the country, after Iwao Hakamada, 89, received 217 million yen ($ 8.24 million) for almost half a century of unfair detention. Hakamada, who had been sentenced to death for the murder of a four -person family in 1966, was acquitted in September in a new trial, which was beginning after evidence of DNA that undermined his conviction, executions are always done by hanging in Japan, where about 100 prisoners in the death corridor are hoping their sentences will be fulfilled. Almost half of them are looking for a new trial, Japanese Minister Keisuke Suzuki said on Friday. The Japanese law stipulates that executions must be carried out within six months after the verdict, after the appeals are exhausted. But in reality, most detainees are in solitary confinement for years and sometimes decades. There is a widespread criticism of the system and the lack of government transparency in relation to this practice. In 2022, Tomohiro Kato was hanged by an attack that killed seven people in 2008, when he advanced with a rented truck against a multitude in Tokyo to soon stabbed people indiscriminately. Among the most famous executions are also that of Guru Shoko Asahara and 12ex-Member of his supreme truth sect (Aum Shinrikyo in Japanese) in 2018. Aum Shinrikyo orchestrated Sarin gas attacks on the 1995 Tokyo subway system, killing 14 people and leaving thousands of other patients.

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