Japan executes man convicted of 2017 murders of 9 people: source

A man convicted for the 2017 serial murders of nine people in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, has been executed, a source close to the matter said Friday.

The death sentence of Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed Japan’s “Twitter killer,” was finalized in 2021.

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 31, 2017, shows an apartment building in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, where police found nine dismembered bodies in one of its units. (Kyodo)

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