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Japan executed a man named “Twitter Killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people who met online, in the first promulgation of the death penalty of the Nation since 2022.

Takahiro Shiraishi34, he was hanged for killing his young victims, all but one of whom were women, after contacting them on the social media platform now called X.

He had attacked users who published about his own life, telling them that he could help them in their plans or even die with them.

According to the BBC, his Twitter profile contained the words: “I want to help people who really have pain. Please, DM [direct message] At any time. “

He killed the three teenagers and five women after raping them. He also killed one of the women to silence him, News reported.

Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki said Shiraishi’s crimes, made in 2017It included “theft, violation, murder … destruction of a corpse and abandonment of a body.”

“Nine victims were beaten and strangled, killed, stolen and then mutilated with parts of their hidden bodies in boxes, and pieces discarded in a dump,” Suzuki told journalists in Tokyo.

Nine bodies were found in refrigerators and toolboxes when the officers visited their floor, which was called by the media as a “house of horrors,” the BBC reported.

Shiraishi acted to satisfy “his own sexual and financial desires” and the murders “caused great shock and anxiety to society,” said Suzuki.

“After a very careful consideration, I ordered the execution.”

Japan and the United States are the only two G7 countries that still use capital punishment, and there is strong support for the Japanese public, they show the surveys.

There was an execution in 2022, three in 2021, three in 2019 and 15 in 2018, the Ministry of Justice told the News.

Shiraishi was sentenced to death in 2020 for the murders of his nine victims, between 15 and 26 years.

After attracting them to his small house near the capital, he hid parts of his bodies around the apartment in refrigerators and toolboxes sprayed with cat sand in an attempt to hide the evidence.

His lawyers had argued that Shiraishi should receive a prison sentence instead of being executed because his victims had expressed suicidal thoughts and, therefore, had agreed to die.

But a judge dismissed that argument, calling the crimes of Shiraishi “cunning and cruel”, the reports said at that time.

“The dignity of the victims was trampled,” the judge had said, adding that Shiraishi had taken advantage of the people who were “mentally fragile.”

The spooky murders were discovered in the fall of 2017 by the police who investigated the disappearance of a 23 -year -old woman who, according to the reports, had tweeted on wanting to commit suicide.

His brother obtained access to his Twitter account and finally led the Police to the Shiraishi residence, where investigators found dismembered body parts.

Executions in Japan

Executions are always held in Japan, where about 100 prisoners of the Death Sliding are waiting for their convictions to be carried out.

Almost half looks for a new trial, said Suzuki on Friday.

Executions are carried out in secret, where prisoners are not even informed of their destination until the morning of their hanging, according to News.

Japanese law stipulates that executions must be carried out within six months after a verdict after the appeals are exhausted.

Actually, however, most inmates remain in Terthooks in solitary confinement for years, and sometimes decades.

There are generalized criticisms of the system and the lack of transparency of the government on practice.

Shiraishi’s execution was the first under the administration of Prime Minister Shigeru Ihiba, Japan Times reported.

In 2022, Volohiro Kato was hung For an attack that killed seven people in 2008, when he rammed a two -ton rented truck in a crowd in Tokyo and went to a stabbing.

He high profile executions From Guru Shoko Asahara and 12 former members of the cult Aum Shinrikyo Doomsday took place in 2018.

Aum Shinrikyo orchestrated the 1995 Sarin gas attacks against the Tokyo Metro system, killing 14 people and disgusting thousands more.

If you or someone you know is in emotional anguish or suicidal crisis, call the national suicide prevention line at 1-800-273-Talk (8255).

For more information on resources and the support of mental health care, you can reach the help line of the National Alliance of Mental Diseases (NAMI) from Monday to Friday, from 10 am to 6 pm et, 1-800-950-NAMI (6264) or send an email to info@nami.org.

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