A 30-year-old Japanese man, Takahiro Shiraishi, has been sentenced to death for murdering and dismembering nine people he contacted through Twitter. Dubbed Japan’s “Twitter killer”, Shiraishi had used a Twitter handle which loosely translates as “hangman” to find people who expressed suicidal intentions. He sent them messages promising to...
Man who promised to help people die on Twitter sentenced to death for killing nine












