“Twitter killer” in Japan was executed – DW – 27.06.2025

In Japan, Takahiro Shiraishi, nicknamed the “Twitter killer”, who was guilty of killing and destroyed nine people he had communicated through social media, was executed. Furthermore, The re -implementation of the death penalty for the first time after three years in the country has found. Consequently, a wide range of international public opinion.

Japanese Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki. Meanwhile, who ordered the execution of the 34 -year -old Takahiro Shiraishi to execute the execution decision, defended this darkness. However, Minister Suzuki. For example, the execution of the execution of the execution of the “very careful evaluation and examination after the investigation,” he said.

Shiraishi’s crimes committed in 2017 as “robbery, rape, “twitter killer” japan executed – murder, disintegration of bodies”, the Japanese minister, the attacker “selfish” and “to satisfy their own sexual and material desires” said, “the murders” caused great shock and concern in the society, “he noted.

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Shiraishi, who was executed by hanging, was sentenced to death in 2020. In 2017. Shiraishi was found guilty of killing and breaking into pieces of nine victims aged between 15 and 26 years of ages, which were now contacted through the social media platform called X.

Shiraishi. who chose to share his victims in the direction of what they wanted to commit suicide, said that he could help them in suicide plans and even die with them.

Shiraishi’s lawyers. called the “Twitter killer”, wanted Shiraishi to be sentenced to imprisonment instead of being executed, while the judge of the case rejected the demand of lawyers by stating that the attacker “mentally hunted fragile people”.

The majority of the Japanese people support execution

Japan is one of the two G7 countries where. the death penalty is still applied with the US.

There is a strong public support for death penalty in the country. According to a survey conducted in 2024, 83 percent of the Japanese people consider the death penalty as “inevitable”. 62 percent of them if the death penalty is removed, the victims’ families “never find solace” argues.

However. the results of the questionnaire also show that the rate of those who think that the death penalty should be abolished increased from 9 percent to 17 percent compared to five years ago.

In Japan, the death penalty has been implemented by hanging for about a century and a half. The prisoners are taken to the gallows with their eyes and their hands and feet handcuffs. When the prison officials in the adjacent room press one button simultaneously, the cover under the prisoner opens. No official knows which button triggers the deadly mechanism.

Prisoners usually learn that they will be executed at the last moment. and no family member is not allowed to witness the last moments of prisoners.

A group of deputies. legal experts and criminal victims pointed out that little information was shared about the execution system in a report published last year. The report included the determination of “deprived of the basic basis to form public opinion”. and the “twitter killer” japan executed – application of execution penalties were requested to be suspended until the system was reviewed.

AFP / DA, MUAL

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