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Japan Twitter Killer Ruling

Takahiro Shiraishi leaves a police station in Hachioji, suburbs of Tokyo in November, 2017. A Japanese court on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 sentenced a man to death for killing and dismembering nine people who had posted suicidal thoughts on social media, in a case that shocked the country. (Takuya Inaba/Kyodo News via AP)

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