Japan for the first time since 2022 executed a man waiting in a cell cellthe NHK public service television and other media announced on Friday. In the case of the executed, they are Takahir Širaiši, convicted for the murder of nine people. TASR informs according to AFP report.
The murder is 34-year-old Širaiši, also nicknamed “Twitter murderer”, which is the original name of the social platform xaccording to the judgment he committed in 2017. The Japanese Ministry of Justice refused to confirm that it was hanged.
Širaiši was sentenced to the death penalty for the murder of nine persons he met on the platform. His victims, mostly women between the ages of 15 to 26, lured him into his apartment at the metropolis of Tokyo, where he killed them and their bodies cutwrites AFP.
He focused mainly on victims who had suicidal tendencies. He then promised them to help them die. The pieces of bodies then hid in the freezer boxes in his small apartmentwhere the police also discovered them in the search for one of the victims.
The defense originally claimed that the victims had died voluntarily, and asked that the Širaiši not be judged for murder. However, he later confirmed that he killed them against their will. The victims were eight women and one man who was known to one of the missing women.
Japan has one of the highest levels of suicide among industrial countries; Every year, approximately 20,000 people voluntarily end their lives in the country. Japan and the United States are the only two members of the G7 group who have retained the implementation of the death penalty, says AFP.
