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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. He was convicted of masterminding the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, and was also involved in several other crimes.
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 ...
Shoko Asahara (2018) Bai Ningyang (2006) Peter Barnes (1940) Michael Barrett (1868) last public execution in the UK; Bangla Bhai (2007) Dominick Bodkin (1740) Bernard Bolender (1995) Vernon Booher (1929) Lester Bower (2015) Earl Bramblett (2003) Arthur Brown Jr. (2023) John Brown (1859) Richard Burgess (1866) Abel Clemmons (1806) Robert Raymond ...
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 ...
High courts retry cases with only three judges and no lay judges, and can either reduce a death sentence to life or raise a life sentence to death. Ultimately, a five-member petty bench of the Supreme Court has the final say on the penalty, Article 411 of the Code of Criminal Procedure allows it to remand the case or change the punishment if ...
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]