{"id":11539,"date":"2025-06-27T17:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=11539"},"modified":"2025-06-27T17:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:14:44","slug":"japan-executes-serial-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=11539","title":{"rendered":"Japan Executes Serial Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Junko Ogura and Chris Lau <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/06\/26\/asia\/japan-takahiro-shiraishi-executed-intl-hnk\">report<\/a> for CNN:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Japan has executed a man dubbed the \u201cTwitter killer,\u201d who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly women, in the country\u2019s first use of capital punishment in nearly three years.<\/p>\n<p>Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged Friday at the Tokyo Detention House. He was sentenced to death in 2020 after pleading guilty to killing the nine people \u2013 eight women and one man.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Shiraishi was arrested in October 2017 after police searched his home in the city of Zama in Kanagawa prefecture, on the outskirts of Tokyo, to investigate the disappearance of a 23-year-old woman who had expressed suicidal thoughts on social media, including Twitter, now known as X.<\/p>\n<p>Three cooler boxes and five containers were found in Shiraishi\u2019s room, containing human heads and bones with the flesh scraped off, CNN affiliate TV Asahi reported at the time, citing police sources.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Japan can get in done in five years. The US can also, when the will is there. Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was executed less than four years after sentencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junko Ogura and Chris Lau report for CNN: Japan has executed a man dubbed the \u201cTwitter killer,\u201d who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly women, in the country\u2019s first use of capital punishment in nearly three years. Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged Friday at the Tokyo Detention House. He was sentenced to death in 2020 after pleading guilty to killing the nine people \u2013 eight women and one man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-penalty","category-international"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Japan Executes Serial Killer - Crime &amp; Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=11539\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Japan Executes Serial Killer - Crime &amp; Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Junko Ogura and Chris Lau report for CNN: Japan has executed a man dubbed the \u201cTwitter killer,\u201d who was convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people, mostly women, in the country\u2019s first use of capital punishment in nearly three years. 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