Japanese “Twitter killer” Takahiro Shiraishi has been sentenced to death.
A Japanese man known as the “Twitter killer” was sentenced to death Tuesday by a Tokyo court for killing nine people he met online.
Mr. Shashi, 30, used the social media twitter to find suicidal people, lure them to his apartment and kill them.
Between August 2017 and October 2017, Mr. Baishi killed a total of nine different victims, including eight women and one man, the youngest of whom was 15 years old.
The court found that none of the nine victims had volunteered to be killed.
On Oct. 30, 2017, the police arrested Mr. Baishi after he was found with a body stump in the apartment where he lived. The remains, which were placed in a refrigerator and a freezer, included more than 240 bones, which were covered with cat litter.
In September 2020, Baishi pleaded guilty to killing nine of his victims. In October, prosecutors at the Tokyo District Court recommended the death penalty.
Mr. Baishi’s defense lawyer, arguing that the victim had expressed his death wish online, had asked the court to sentence him only to prison, but the court said none of the nine victims had volunteered to be killed.
The court noted that the loss of the lives of nine young people and the violation of the dignity of the victims was a grave crime.
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