TOKYO — Japan executed a antheral connected Friday who killed 9 radical aft contacting them connected societal media, the archetypal usage of superior punishment successful the state successful astir 3 years.
Takahiro Shiraishi had been sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of 8 women and 1 antheral successful his flat successful Zama metropolis successful Kanagawa adjacent Tokyo. He was dubbed the “Twitter killer” due to the fact that helium contacted victims via the societal media platform.
Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki, who authorized Shiraishi’s hanging, said helium made the determination aft cautious examination, taking into relationship the convict’s “extremely selfish” motive for crimes that “caused large daze and unrest to society.”
A tribunal sketch of Shiraishi successful 2020.Masato Yamashita / JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty ImagesIt followed the execution successful July 2022 of a antheral who went connected a stabbing rampage successful Tokyo’s Akihabara buying district successful 2008.
It was besides the archetypal clip a decease punishment was carried retired since Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s government was inaugurated past October.
In September past year, a Japanese tribunal acquitted Iwao Hakamada, who had spent the world’s longest clip connected decease enactment aft a wrongful condemnation for crimes committed astir 60 years ago.
Capital punishment is carried retired by hanging successful Japan and prisoners are notified of their execution hours earlier it is carried out, which has agelong been decried by quality rights groups for the accent it puts connected death-row prisoners.
“It is not due to abolish the decease punishment portion these convulsive crimes are inactive being committed,” Suzuki told a quality conference. There are presently 105 decease enactment inmates successful Japan, helium added.
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