Japan's 'Twitter killer' sentenced to death for murders of 9 people
A Japanese court on Tuesday sentenced a man dubbed "Twitter killer" to death for the 2017 murders of nine people, eight women and a man, local media reported. Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, was convicted of murdering, raping, dismembering, and storing the nine victims' bodies in his apartment. Shiraishi made contact with victims via Twitter after they expressed suicidal thoughts.