Japan executed on Friday a man convicted of the 2017 serial murders of nine people near Tokyo, the government said, marking ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, a death-row inmate convicted of killing nine people he met on social media, was executed Friday — the ...

Japan executed “Twitter Killer” Takahiro Shiraishi in its first use of the death penalty since 2022. Shiraishi murdered and ...

Japan has executed a man who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in ...

Takahiro Shiraishi's victims were aged 15 to 26. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Minister Ninh noted that Vietnam has steadily reduced the number of capital crimes over the years: from 44 in the 1985 Penal ...

Truong My Lan had her appeal against the death penalty dismissed last year as she scrambled to repay billions of dollars, but ...

The court awarded the death penalty to Lala based on the evidence and arguments put forward by the prosecution and held that ...