Japan’s ‘Twitter Killer’ was hanged: ‘Let’s woo the victims’ with ‘Let’s Die Together’; Left body parts in cats
He called himself a “Hangan” on Twitter and offered people to help in pain. But behind that twisted mask of sympathy was one of Japanese’s most cold -blooded serial killers. On Friday, Takiro Shirishi dubbed the “Twitter killer” crooks, he was hanged for the killing of nine youths found through social media, in a case that shook the nation and ruled the debate on the country’s secret death sentence system.Shirishi, 34, was hanged at the Tokyo Detention House, which was executed in privacy and was announced only after completion. The victims, eight women and a man, aged 15 to 26, expressed all suicidal ideas online. Shirishi often responded to such posts with messages like “Let’s Die Together” and used a handle, which was translated into “Hangan”. Read in their profile: “I want to help those who are really in pain. Please DM [direct message] I ever Jiji news agency told.
House of horror
The case came to light in October 2017, when the police investigated a missing woman, in which human remains were discovered in Shirishi’s Zama apartment. The body parts were stored in coolers and toolboxes, sprayed with cat litter in an attempt to mask decomposition. Local media described the flat as a “horrific house”.He used to entice him to his apartment near Tokyo, where he raped and killed the female victims, he killed a woman’s boyfriend and silence her. Justice Minister Keyke Suzuki said the murders were run by Shirishi’s “sexual and financial desires”, and included “robbery, rape, murder, destruction of a corpse and abandonment of the corpse.” He said that crimes led to “a lot of shock and concern for society”.
Raksha ruled brutally
Shirishi’s legal team had argued that the victims had agreed to die due to their suicide views and so reduced the punishment on the basis of “consenting murder”. He also expressed concern over his mental state. However, the court dismissed both claims. According to NHK and TV Asahi, he convicted the court, stating that he had killed the victims to fulfill their sexual desires.The judge called the acts “clever and cruel”, saying that Shaishi hunted “mentally delicate” individuals and violated their dignity.
Public reaction
The execution has resumed public debate on the use of Japan’s death penalty. It is always done to be hanged in Japan, and currently about 100 prisoners live in the death row. Japan and the United States are the only G7 countries that still implement the death penalty.The hanging of Shirishi follows other high-profile execution in recent years. In 2022, Tomohiro Kato was killed for a 2008 rampage in Akihbara district of Tokyo, leaving seven dead. In 2018, Japan killed Panth leader Shoko Ashra and 12 members of the AUM Shinero sect, who were responsible for the Sarin Gas attack on Tokyo’s metro system in 1995, killing 14 people and injuring thousands.
