A man was hanged in Japan on Friday. He killed nine people in 2017. He was known as ‘Twitter Killer’. The real name of the person was Takiro Shirishi.
Takiro Social contacted the media and killed them. In this way he killed nine people. This is the first case in the country in the last three years, when someone was given death penalty. Earlier in 2022, an accused was hanged.
Calling the flat and strangled the throat
In 2017, Takiro Shirishi called eight women and a man to death by calling him to his apartment in Jama city of Kanagawa near Tokyo. He used to contact people through social media platform Twitter. Then he used to call him in his trap and to meet him and then strangled him to death. After this, the dead bodies used to be set in pieces. He contacted all the people through Twitter. Because of this, Takiro was called Twitter killer.
After three years, first sentence of stuck
Japan’s Justice Minister Kesuke Suzuki Han Shirishi was allowed to be hanged. He said that he took this decision after carefully investigating, in which the ‘extremely selfish’ purpose of the criminal was taken into consideration. He had shocked the society deeply and it spread peace. Sujuki said in a press conference that it is not appropriate to eliminate the death penalty as long as these violent crimes are happening. He said that 105 prisoners in Japan are currently sentenced to death.
Earlier hanged in 2022
Earlier in July 2022, a person was hanged. In 2008, he attacked Tokyo’s shopping district Akihabara with a knife. This was the first time after the formation of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba government in October when the death penalty was given.
In September last year, a Japanese court acquitted Evao Hakamada, who spent the longest time in the world on the sentence of death penalty after a wrong sentence for crimes committed about 60 years ago.
Human rights groups condemned the death penalty in Japan
In Japan, the death penalty is hanged and the prisoners are reported several hours before the hanging, which has been condemned by human rights groups for a long time. Because this causes a lot of stress to the prisoners who get the death penalty.