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Shoko Asahara (麻原 彰晃, Asahara Shōkō, March 2, 1955 – July 6, 2018), born Chizuo Matsumoto (松本 智津夫, Matsumoto Chizuo), was the founder and leader of the Japanese doomsday cult known as Aum Shinrikyo.
All of those implicated in the Sakamoto murders received death sentences. [12] The court found that the murder was committed by order of the group's founder, Shoko Asahara, although not all of the perpetrators testified to this effect, and Asahara denied involvement. Asahara's legal team claims that blaming him is an attempt to shift personal ...
Japan hanged Shoko Asahara on Friday and six other members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, which killed 13 people in an attack that shattered the country's myth of public safety. Japan on alert after ...
Date Place Crime Victim(s) Minister 1 Seikichi Kondo 55 M 26 March 1993 Sendai: Multiple murders 2 Masaharu Gotoda: 2 Shujiro Tachikawa 62 M Osaka: Multiple murders 2 3 Tetsuo Kawanaka 48 M Osaka Multiple murders 3 4 Tadao Kojima 61 M 26 November 1993 Sapporo: Multiple murders 3 Akira Mikazuki: 5 Yukio Seki 47 M Tokyo: Single murder 1 6 Hideo ...
The execution of Japanese doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara leaves unanswered questions about Aum Shinrikyo, the group behind the 1995 sarin-gas attack on the Tokyo subway that killed 13 people ...
Amnesty International criticized use of the death penalty in the case. While executions are rare in Japan, they have public support according to surveys. [55] There were 13 members on death row at the time: An anti–Aum Shinrikyo banner in 2014. Aum Shinrikyo members executed on 6 July 2018: [54] Shoko Asahara, leader of Aum Shinrikyo
Sarah Boone, the woman recently found guilty of murdering her boyfriend in 2020 by suffocating him in a suitcase, will be sentenced in an Orlando courtroom on Monday and faces up to life in prison.
On 27 November 2004, all the Aum trials concluded, excluding Asahara's, as the death sentence of Seiichi Endo was upheld by Japan's Supreme Court. As a result, among a total of 189 members indicted, 13 were sentenced to death, five were sentenced to life in prison, 80 were given prison sentences of various lengths, 87 received suspended ...