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Japan punished a man who killed nine people in 2017, for the first time since 2022, when the country led to capital punishment.
Serial murders of Takahir Shirai, dubbed the “killer on Twitter”He shocked the country and summoned a discussion on how suicide was discussed on the Internet.
Then the 30 -year -old widow attracted his victims – most of them between the ages of 15 and 26 – in his apartment before strangling and squeezing them.
The murders appeared in October 2017, when police found body parts in the Japanese city, next to Tokyo when they were looking for one of the victims.
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Shiraishi later confessed to the murder of nine victims of suicides and showed that he met them on Twitter, a social media platform, which is now known as X.
He then told them could help them die, and in some cases claimed he would kill himself.
His profile on Twitter contained the words: “I want to help people who really hurt. Please DM (direct message) at any time.”
Nine dismembered bodies were found in colects and boxes with instruments when officers visited his apartment, which was named in the media as a “horror house”.
While the prosecutor’s office sought the death penalty for Shirajishi, his lawyers argued for less charges of “murder with consent”, saying that his victims had given permission to murder.
They also called for an assessment of his mental state.
Later, Shiraiya disputed the version of the events of his defense team and said he killed without the victim’s consent.
Hundreds of people appeared at a hearing in December 2020 when he was sentenced to death.
The killings also pushed the changes to Twitter, which have made changes to their rules for state users, should not “promote or encourage suicide and self -harm.”
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