Japan is implemented by “Twitter Killer” that killed nine

Japan executed a man who killed nine people in 2017, which is the first time since 2022 that the country enacted the death penalty.

Serial killings by Takahiro Sherishi, It was called “Twitter killer”The country was shocked and the debate about how to discuss suicide online.

Sherishi, 30, attracted his victims – most of whom are young women between the ages of 15 and 26 – to his apartment, before being strangled and left.

The killings appeared in October 2017, when the police found parts of an object in the Japanese city of Zama, near Tokyo, when they were looking for a victim.

Warning: Readers may find some details in this painful story.

Shiraishi later admitted to killing nine suicide bombers and revealed that he had met them on Twitter, the social media platform now known as X.

Then he told them that he could help them death, and in some cases he claimed that he would kill himself next to them.

His personal file contained Twitter words: “I want to help people who really suffer from pain. Please DM (direct message) to me at any time.”

Intermittent bodies in NNINE were found in the coolers and boxes of tool when the officers visited his apartment, which was called the media as “House of Terror”.

While the general prosecutors sought the death penalty against Sherishi, his lawyer argued for “killing with consent”, claiming that his victims had given their permission to kill.

They also called for the evaluation of his mental state.

Sherishi later opposed his defense team from the events and said he was killed without the consent of the victims.

Hundreds of people attended his session in December 2020, when he was sentenced to death.

The murders have also led to a change by Twitter, whose rules were amended to state users, should not be “promoting or encouraging suicide or self -harm.”

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