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Shoko Asahara: 63 M 6 July 2018 [18] Tokyo Multiple murders: 29 114 Seiichi Endo: 58 M Tokyo 115 Masami Tsuchiya: 53 M Tokyo 116 Tomomitsu Niimi: 54 M Osaka 117 Yoshihiro Inoue: 48 M Osaka 118 Tomomasa Nakagawa: 55 M Hiroshima 119 Kiyohide Hayakawa: 68 M Fukuoka 120 Satoru Hashimoto: 51 M 26 July 2018 [19] Tokyo 121 Yasuo Hayashi: 60 M Sendai ...
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.
Harvey Glatman (1959) known as "the Glamour Girl Slayer" Sergey Golovkin (1996) known as "the Boa", last execution in Russia; Fritz Haarmann (1925) known as "the Butcher of Hanover" John George Haigh (1949) known as "the Acid Bath Murderer" Saeed Hanaei (2002) known as "the Spider Killer" William Henry Hance (1994) known as "the Force of Evil"
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
On 15 September 2006, Shoko Asahara lost his final appeal against the death penalty. The following day Japanese police raided the offices of Aleph in order to "prevent any illegal activities by cult members in response to the confirmation of Asahara's death sentence". [83] Thirteen cult members were eventually sentenced to death. [84]
Diagram of the three-button execution method. One of Japan's seven execution chambers is in this facility. All executions in Japan are carried out by hanging.The execution chamber in Tokyo has a trap door, which is operated by one of the three buttons in the next-door room, which are simultaneously pressed by three prison staff members so that none of them will know who activated the drop.