“Twitter killer”who murdered nine in Japan reportedly executed

Tokyo : Japan has executed a man dubbed the “twitter killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation’s first enactment of the death penalty since the year 2002. A man named Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to death for murdering and dismembering nine people he met on the social media platform, now called as “X, in the year 2017. The culprit was hanged on Friday.

Takahiro Shiraishi is said to have lured his mostly female victims, aged between 15 and 26 to his apartment near Tokyo, where he killed them and cup up their bodies. He furtherly admitted to murdering all nine of them, having made contact with suicidal victims on Twitter and offering to help them die, before stashing bit of bodies in coolers around his small apartment, according to the sources. Justice minister said Shiraishi’s crimes included “robbery, rape, murder , destruction of a corpse and abandonment of a corpse”. “The nine victims were beaten and strangled, killed, robbed, and then mutilated with parts of their bodies concealed in boxes, and parts discarded in garbage dump”. “After much careful consideration, I ordered the execution,” he said.

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Japan and the United States are the only two members of the Group of Seven industrialised economies to retain the death penalty.