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By John Ogunsemore
Japan has executed Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed the ‘Twitter killer’, who killed and dismembered nine people over two months.
Shiraishi, 34, was hanged on Friday at Tokyo Detention House, according to Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki.
It was the first execution in the southeast Asian nation in three years.
Shiraishi was arrested in October 2017 as police investigated the disappearance of a 23-year-old woman, who had expressed suicidal thoughts on Twitter, now X.
According to TV Asahi, a raid on his home in the city of Zama in Kanagawa prefecture, outskirts of Tokyo, turned up three cooler boxes and five containers containing human heads and bones with the flesh scraped off.
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Shiraishi’s victims, aged 15 to 26, comprised eight women and one man and had all expressed suicidal thoughts on social media.
Jiji news agency reported that Shiraishi contacted the victims through social media and invited them to his home with a promise to help them fulfill their wish to die.
Shiraishi pleaded guilty in court to the murders, saying he killed the victims to satisfy his sexual desires, NHK reported.
He was convicted and sentenced to death in December 2020.
A subsequent appeal to the Tokyo High Court was later withdrawn, enabling the finalisation of the sentence.
