Tokyo
CNN
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Japan executed on Friday a man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly women, after contacting them on social media, according to the country’s justice minister.
The execution is the first use of capital punishment in the country in nearly three years.
Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was sentenced to death in 2020 after pleading guilty to killing the nine people in a what was a high-profile mass murder case that gripped the nation.
He was found guilty in December 2020 of murdering, raping and dismembering the nine victims, and storing their bodies in his apartment in Zama,…
