Japan is implementing a man called “Twitter killer”, the murderer, the series, who killed and cut 9 people

On Friday, Japan executed a man called “Twitter is a killer” Those who have killed and cut nine people online, in the first legislation of the death penalty since 2022.

Takahiro Sherishi34, it was hanging to kill its young victims, all of whom are women except for one, after contacting them on the social media platform that is now called X.

He had targeted users who published about taking their private lives, and told them that he could help them in their plans, or even die next to them.

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

The three teenage girls and five women were killed after rape. A friend of one of the women was killed, according to the Associated Press.

Justice Minister Kisuke Suzuki said Cherici’s crimes, It was carried out in 2017It included “theft, rape, murder … destroying a corpse and abandoning a body.”

Suzuki told reporters in Tokyo: “Nine victims were beaten and strangled, killed, and stolen, then they were distorted with parts of their bodies hidden in the boxes, and parts that ignore the emptying of garbage,” Suzuki told reporters in Tokyo.

Nine intermittent bodies were found in the coolers and boxes of tool when the officers visited his apartment, which was called the media as a “horror house”, the BBC said.

Suzuki said that Shercashi acted to fulfill his “sexual and financial desires” and caused murders “shock and great anxiety for society.”

“After a lot of study carefully, I ordered implementation.”

Japan and the United States are the only two countries that still use the death penalty, and there is strong support for the Japanese public.

The Ministry of Justice told AFP that there was one execution in 2022, three in 2021 and three in 2019 and 15 in 2018.

Sherishi was sentenced to death in 2020 for the murders of his nine victims, between the ages of 15 and 26.

After entering his small home near the capital, he hidden parts of their bodies around the apartment in the coolers and boxes that are sprayed with cat waste in an attempt to hide the evidence.

His lawyers argued that Sherishi should receive prison sentence instead of executing them because his victims expressed suicide ideas and thus agreed to death.

But the judge rejected this argument, and described Sherishi’s crimes as “cunning and harsh”, according to reports at the time.

The judge said, “The dignity of the victims has trampled,” adding that Sherishi has defeated “mentally fragile” people.

The horrific murders were discovered in the fall of 2017 by the police who were investigating the disappearance of a 23 -year -old tweet about the desire to kill herself.

Her brother managed to reach her Twitter account, and the police eventually led Sherishi, as investigators found parts of the severed body.

Executions in Japan

The executions are always carried out by hanging in Japan, where about 100 prisoners are waiting for their execution time.

Suzuki said on Friday, nearly half of them are seeking to be tried.

The executions are carried out in secrecy, as the prisoners are not informed of their fate until the morning of their hanging, according to Associated Press.

Japanese law states that executions must be carried out within six months of the verdict after the appeals are exhausted.

In fact, however, most prisoners are left on Tenterhooks in solitary confinement for years, and sometimes contracts.

There is widespread criticism of the regime and the government’s lack of transparency on this practice.

Sherishi’s first execution was in the era of the administration of Prime Minister Shigro Ishiba, The Times mentioned Japan.

In 2022, Tomohiro Kato has been hanged To attack seven people in 2008, when a dual rented truck shocked a crowd of Tokyo and went on stabbing.

the High -level executions Among the teacher Shoko Ashara and 12 former members of AUM Shinrikyo Doomsday in 2018.

AUM Shinrikyo organized the 1995 SARIN GAS attacks on Tokyo’s subway system, killing 14 people and ordered thousands.

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