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Japan 'Twitter killer' sentenced to death for serial murders

by Mari Yamaguchi
| December 15, 2020 3:12 AM

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court on Tuesday sentenced a man to death for killing and dismembering nine people, most of whom had posted suicidal thoughts on social media, in a case that shocked the country.

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