Takahiro Shiraishi’s victims included young women considering suicide, whom he lured to his home using social media and ...

Takahiro Shiraishi was put to death on Friday, eight years after body parts were found in coolers at his home outside Tokyo.

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.

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TOKYO >> Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of ...

"It is not appropriate to abolish the death penalty while these violent crimes are still being committed," Mr Suzuki said. There are currently 105 death row inmates in Japan, he added.

Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed the 'Twitter killer,' was executed in Japan for murdering and dismembering nine people in 2017.

Japan's justice minister says he considered very carefully before issuing the execution order of a death row inmate charged ...