Japan used the death penalty for the first time in almost three years as it executed an individual known as the "Twitter killer," who was found guilty of killing and dismembering 9 people. The killer ...

Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in a crowded Tokyo shopping district of Akihabara in 2018.

World News Japan executes ‘Twitter killer’ who murdered and dismembered 9 people in his apartment By Associated Press Published June 27, 2025, 5:34 a.m. ET ...

STORY: :: June 27, 2025:: Japan carries out its first execution since 2022, hanging a man who was dubbed the 'Twitter killer':: Kyodo/via REUTERS:: Takahiro Shiraishi strangled and dismembered ...

June 27 (UPI) -- 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, marking the first ...

Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in a crowded Tokyo shopping district of Akihabara in 2018.

There was a Japan execution. "Twitter Killer" Takahiro Shiraishi, convicted of murder for killing and dismembering 9 women and girls, was executed.

Japan on Friday 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 2022.

Japan executes ‘Twitter killer’ who killed and dismembered nine Takahiro Shiraishi’s victims included young women considering suicide, whom he lured to his home using social media and ...

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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 capital punishment in the country in nearly three years.

Capital punishment is carried out by hanging in Japan and prisoners are notified of their execution hours before it is carried out, which has long been decried by human rights groups for the ...