Japan’s justice minister announced the execution on Friday of a man convicted in the serial killings of nine people, whose mutilated and decomposing body parts were found in his home outside Tokyo eight years ago. Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged at the Tokyo Detention House for the murders of eight women and a man in a two-month killing spree in 2017. The justice minister, Keisuke Suzuki, said he had signed the execution order on Monday but did not witness the hanging on Friday morning, which was announced after it was finished. He said it was Japan’s first execution in almost three years.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/world/asia/japan-serial-killer-execution.html