Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged after murdering nine people — eight of whom were young women he targeted after they ...

TOKYO >> Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in the country in nearly three years.

Takahiro Shiraishi was hanged for the murders of eight women and one man whose body parts he hid in his small apartment.

Japan has executed a man convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo, the country's Justice Ministry announced. Takahiro Shiraishi, the so-called "Twitter Killer", ...

A man dubbed the ‘Twitter killer’ has been hanged for murdering and dismembering nine people. Takahiro Shiraishi was executed ...

There was a Japan execution. "Twitter Killer" Takahiro Shiraishi, convicted of murder for killing and dismembering 9 women and girls, was executed.

Japanese authorities executed Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the "Twitter killer", who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people in 2017 According to public broadcaster ...

Japan carries out rare execution as 'Twitter killer' who murdered nine people, raped the women and chopped up their bodies in house of horrors is hanged. By DAVID AVERRE and AP .

JAPAN has executed the man who brutally murdered eight women and one man – aged between 15 and 26 – after luring them to his flat. Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed the “Twitter killer&#… ...

Japan has executed a man convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo. Takahiro Shiraishi, ...

Takahiro Shiraishi -- dubbed the "Twitter killer" -- strangled eight women and one man to death in 2017 after contacting them on social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

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