Japan executed a death prisoner, the Public RTV service NHK and other media houses said on Friday, for the first time since 2022. year that the country brought the basic sentence.
The Ministry of Justice refused to confirm the hanging, but NHK, referring to government sources, said the prisoner was 34-year-old Takahiro Shiraishi, Who killed nine people in 2017 years.
Shiraishi – called “Twitter Killer” – he was sentenced to death Murder and separation of nine people Sasreo on the social media platform, which is now called X.
It is said that Shiraishi lured its mostly female victims, between the ages of 15 and 26, in his apartment near Tokyo, where he killed and cut off their bodies.
He acknowledged the killing of all nineEstablishing contact with suicidal victims on Twitter and offering to help them die, before they softened the bits of the body in the refrigerators around their small apartment, according to media reports.
Japan and the United States are the only two members of the Seven Industrialized Economics group to maintain the death penalty.
There is irresistible public support for practice and Japanese research of the Japanese government of 1800 respondents showed 83% died the death penalty as “inevitable”.
2022. The Tomohiro Kato was Hanged for Attack in 2008 year In which the rented two-ton truck was abolished in the crowd in Akihabar Aki district, before it goes out and goes to the sting, in the attack that killed seven people.
Since December 2023. year, 107 prisoners were waiting for their death penalties to be implemented, the Ministry of Justice told a newer AFP Agency. It’s always done hanging.
The law stipulates that executions must be made within six months of the final judgment after complaints are exhausted.
In reality, however, most prisoners were left on the tenderhooks in solitary confinement – and sometimes discussed severe consequences for their mental health.
There is a widespread critique of the system and a lack of government transparency over practice. Prisoners are often informed of their upcoming death at the last minute, usually in the early morning before it happens.
High execution Shear word and 12 former Kull members AUM Shinrikio DoomsDai occurred in 2018. years. Aum Shinrikio orchestrated the Gas Sarin 1995 attack on the Tokio metro system, killing 14 people and getting through the thousands.
