Takahiro Shiraishi's house, where 9 bodies were found.
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Masanobu Nakatsukasa / AP
According to him, the verdict is "obvious" and does not require a challenge.
Japanese Takahiro Shiraishi, sentenced to death on Tuesday for the murder of nine people in 2017, told the Mainichi Shimbun daily that he did not intend to appeal the decision.
His lawyers had yet started the proceedings in this direction.
Aged 30, Takahiro Shiraishi, detained since his arrest three years ago, was targeting on Twitter internet users who spoke of suicidal plans online by telling them that he could help them, and even die alongside them.
He admitted to killing and dismembering his nine victims - including eight women -, aged 15 to 26, in his apartment in just two months.
The lawyers had pleaded for life imprisonment
If he accepts this judgment, Takahiro Shiraishi wishes to "meet an ordinary girl" before being executed.
" I want to get married.
I want to meet a partner from my prison, ”he told the newspaper.
During the trial, his lawyers pleaded for life imprisonment, believing that his victims had expressed suicidal thoughts on social networks, and had thus consented to their death.
The court did not accept this argument, ruling that the case has "caused great anxiety in society, because social networks are so widespread".
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