Japan killed a man who killed nine people in 2017, for the first time since 2022 that the country was imposing capital.
Serial sharks in Takahiro Shirishi, Called to “Twitter Killer”Curious in the country and prompts debate how suicide is mentioned online.
Siraishi, then 30, draws his victims – most of the young women between the ages of 15 and 26 – in his apartment, before they separated and separated them.
The killings came in October 2017, when police found the body parts of the Japanese city of Zama, near Tokyo, when they searched one of the victims.
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Siraaya later admitted that nine suicidal victims died and revealed that he knew them on Twitter, the social media platform now known as X.
He told them that he could help die, and in some cases he claimed to kill himself beside them.
His Twitter profile contains the words: “I want to help people really hurt. Please DM (direct message) me at any time.”
Nnine bodies were found in coolers and tool boxes when officers visited his flat, called media outlets as a “house of horrors”.
As the prosecutions seek the death penalty for Siraishi, his lawyers reasoned for the smallest command of “permissive murders”, claiming his victims given their consent to kill.
They also called for an analysis of his mental state.
Sirishi later opposed his own version of defense events and said he killed without the consent of the victims.
Hundreds of people showed his hearing judge on December 2020, when he sentenced to death.
Murders also prompts Twitter change, changed the rules of state users do not have to “promote or encourage suicide or self-destructive”.
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