A man who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, has been executed in Japan, in the country's first enactment of the death penalty since 2022.

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the "Twitter killer," was sentenced to death in 2020 for the killings in 2017 of the nine victims. His execution on Friday was the first use of capital punishment in ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, the so-called "Twitter Killer", was sentenced to death in 2020 for murdering nine individuals, most of whom had expressed suicidal thoughs on Twitter. The killings shocked the ...

Shiraishi, who committed the crimes in 2017, was executed by hanging - marking Japan's first execution since 2022. Then 27, the serial killer lured young women to his home, where he raped them ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the 'Twitter killer', was executed in Japan on Friday. He was sentenced to death in 2020 after murdering and dismembering nine people ...

A man guilty of murdering nine people, most of whom had posted suicidal thoughts on social media, has been executed in Japan. Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the "Twitter killer", was sentenced to death ...

TOKYO: Japan on Friday (Jun 27) 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 has hanged Takahiro Shiraishi, a serial killer who murdered nine people he met on Twitter. Japan's justice minister said Shiraishi's crimes included robbery, rape, murder, and destruction of ...

A Japanese court has sentenced a man to death for killing and dismembering nine people, most of whom had posted suicidal thoughts on social media. The Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Court ...

Suspected 'Twitter Killer' Takahiro Shiraishi hides his face while being transported to the prosecutor's office from a police station in Tokyo on November 1, 2017. Photo: STR/AFP via Getty Images But ...

A Japanese sicko dubbed the “Twitter Killer” was sentenced to death Tuesday by a Tokyo district court for killing and ... The serial killings were uncovered in October 2017 by authorities ...