Japan executed Takahiro Shiraishi for committing this crime.
TAKAHIRO SHIRAISHI – Japan’s execution is the first since 2022 after this man was convicted of committing this gruesome crime.
Dubbed as the “Twitter Killer,” Takahiro Shiraishi was executed by the Japanese government for claiming the lives and dismembering nine (9) people he met online. This is the first execution done in the country that legalized capital punishment by hanging since 2022.
Hanging is the only execution method in the country carried out by a long drop that ultimately ends the life of the person by breaking the neck.
The case of Shiraishi
The Japanese man was convicted of doing gruesome acts on nine people, mostly women. He is 34 and was ordered to be executed on Friday at the Tokyo Detention House. In 2020, he was sentenced to death after being found guilty.
He was arrested in October 2017 in Kanagawa prefecture. The authorities searched his home after a 23-year-old woman disappeared. In his home were found three cooler boxes and five containers that contained human heads and bones, flesh scraped off.
This has raised major concerns across the country over the use of social media.
The victims – one man and eight women – were aged between 15 and 26. The victims have posts about wanting their lives to end, and Shiraishi contacted them online. He had invited them to his apartment with the promise to help them do what they wanted to happen.
He pleaded guilty and admitted in court that he committed the crime to satisfy his own desires, and after his unimaginable acts, he would store their bodies in his apartment. In December 2020, he was found guilty.
Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki authorized his execution. It was a decision he made after careful examination of the case, taking into account his “extremely selfish” motive for crimes that “caused great shock and unrest to society.”
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