Japan’s Justice Ministry on Thursday executed all of the six remaining former senior members of the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo on death row.
Japan’s Justice Ministry on Thursday executed all of the six remaining former senior members of the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo on death row.
The executions followed the July 6 hangings of Aum leader Chizuo Matsumoto, 63, who also went by the pseudonym of Shoko Asahara, and six other former senior members of the cult, which committed a series of deadly crimes, including the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on Tokyo’s subway system. All 13 convicted former Aum members on death row have now been executed.
