Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith represented dozens of inmates on Death Row and claims he watched an innocent man die - and that ...

Takahiro Shiraishi’s victims included young women considering suicide, whom he lured to his home using social media and ...

Japan has executed a death row prisoner, public broadcaster NHK and other media outlets said Friday, the first time since ...

Takahiro Shiraishi was put to death on Friday, eight years after body parts were found in coolers at his home outside Tokyo.

A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed Friday, Japan's Justice Ministry said.

Japan executed a 34-year-old death row inmate known as the "Twitter Killer," who was convicted of killing nine people at his apartment south of Tokyo in 2017.

His lawyers have said there was no physical or forensic evidence connecting him to a fatal stabbing decades ago.

Japan has executed a man convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo. Takahiro Shiraishi, ...

Japan has carried out its first execution in nearly three years, hanging Takahiro Shiraishi, the man known as the "Twitter ...