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Japan's worst criminals face their death inside a highly secretive execution room located inside a nondescript office block.

Japan carried out its first execution in nearly three years, hanging Takahiro Shiraishi, infamously known as the “Twitter killer.” He was convicted in 2020 for luring nine vulnerable individuals, ...

A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed on Friday, Japan’s Justice Ministry said. Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the Twitter killer, ...

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.

Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged after murdering nine people — eight of whom were young women he targeted after they ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter killer,” was sentenced to death in 2020 for the killings in 2017 of the nine victims, most of whom had posted suicidal thoughts on social media.

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the ' Twitter killer,' was sentenced to death in 2020 for murdering nine victims in 2017, most ...

Japan has executed a man convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo. Takahiro Shiraishi, ...

Takahiro Shiraishi was hanged for the murders of eight women and one man whose body parts he hid in his small apartment.