Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed the 'Twitter killer,' was executed in Japan for murdering and dismembering nine people in 2017.

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

TOKYO >> Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of ...

Editor's note: This is the last in a four-part series on letters that Iwao Hakamada wrote while on death row. About a decade after cursing God, Iwao Hakamada was baptized Catholic at the Tokyo ...

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

Iwao Hakamada in Hamamatsu's Hamakita Ward, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 13, when the Tokyo High Court granted him a retrial (Pool) ...

Hakamada's group was called Hakuto, which means "white rabbit" in Japanese. The prize shut down in 2018 without a winner, leading some of the teams to dissolve or find new purpose.

Police have released video footage of the alleged killer of a 14-year-old boy unboxing a samurai sword and calling the weapon "freaking sexy". Marcus Monzo, 37, denies murdering teenager Daniel ...

Authorities have reportedly determined the cause of death for a man whose body was found "burned severely" on a mountain in Georgia on Saturday, May 31 Police said the man's death has been ruled a ...