Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man in his ...

Federal prosecutors in New Mexico said Friday they plan to seek the death penalty for the first time since 2018 in the case of a man charged in two homicides ...

The execution was carried out as calls grow to abolish capital punishment or increase transparency in Japan after the acquittal of the world’s longest-serving death row inmate last year.

Japan has executed a man who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in ...

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

Gudinas’s execution is Florida’s seventh this year. And already, Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an 8th warrant—tying the ...

The chilling mass murder case had gripped the nation for years and raised concerns over the use of social media.

Japan has executed a man who murdered nine people in 2017, the first time since 2022 that the country has enacted ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged after murdering nine people — eight of whom were young women he targeted after they ...

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