US EditionJapan Executes 'Twitter Killer' Takahiro Shiraishi
- Japan executed Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the 'Twitter killer,' on June 27, 2025, for murdering nine individuals he contacted through social media, marking the first execution in nearly three years.
- Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki stated that Shiraishi's crimes caused 'great shock and unrest to society' and deemed the death penalty necessary while violent crimes persist.
- Public support for the death penalty remains high in Japan, with an 83% approval rating according to a 2024 government survey of 1,800 respondents.
- As of December 2023, 105 prisoners are on death row in Japan, with widespread criticism regarding the government's lack of transparency in capital punishment practices.
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Japan executed this Friday the so-called “Twitter killer,” a man who killed nine people contacted by that social network, in the first capital punishment application since 2022 in this country.
Japan has executed one of the most sinister serial killers of recent times this Friday. Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, nicknamed the Twitter killer, has been hanged on the gallows after being convicted of killing, quartering and storing in 2017 the bodies of his nine victims in his apartment in Zama, a city in southwestern Tokyo. He had contacted them on social networks, as he confessed in 2020, during the trial, in which he acknowledged the charges. I…
When the judge announced his verdict in 2020, he called Takahiro Shiraishi "extremely vicious and sentenced him to death. Now the sentence was executed
'After much careful consideration, I ordered the execution': Japan's monstrous 'Twitter killer' is now dead
The case of Takahiro Shiraishi – the “Twitter killer” is one of the most terrifying true crime stories to come out of Japan. His depraved killing spree took place between Aug. and Oct. 2017 and resulted in the deaths of nine people: one man and eight young women, three of them high school girls. Shiraishi was dangerous long before he began killing. His job was as a “scout” for Tokyo brothels, with his job to lure young women to the city with the…
He contacted his victims online, lured them to himself – and killed them. Now the verdict against the "Twitter Killer" has been executed.
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