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On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...
Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man in his ...
Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged at the Tokyo Detention House on Friday, June 27, Japan's Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki ...
The case, which shocked the nation, highlights Japan’s continued use of capital punishment despite international criticism.