UN Former Aum Shinrikyo leader executed - Also, six other perpetrators of 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack

UPDATE (7/25/201: LAST SIX EXECUTED

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180706_13/

Sources say the leader of a doomsday cult that carried out the deadly subway attack in Tokyo in 1995 has been executed.

Shoko Asahara whose real name was Chizuo Matsumoto had been on death row for more than a decade after being convicted of murder and other crimes.

Matsumoto was 63 years old.He founded what was to later become known as Aum Shinrikyo around 1984.
Matsumoto urged his followers to prepare for the end of the world.

The cult released sarin gas on the Tokyo subway system in March 1995 killing 13 people and injuring more than 6000.

Matsumoto was found two months later in a hidden room inside a cult facility.

Matsumoto insisted he did not instruct his followers to carry out the attacks. But during his 2004 sentencing the Tokyo District Court said he deserved ultimate condemnation as the mastermind. His death sentence was finalized in 2006.

Criminal trials of Aum Shinrikyo members dragged through Japanese courts for more than 20 years. Almost 200 people were indicted. 13 were sentenced to death.

A court-appointed psychiatrist who met Matsumoto in 2006 reported he maintained relative silence and needed support for bathing and other activities.
Sources say that for the past several years, Matsumoto refused to meet his family members or lawyers.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180706_21/

Sources say the former leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult that carried out the 1995 sarin attack on Tokyo subways and other crimes has been executed, along with 6 of his former disciples.

They say Shoko Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, was executed at the Tokyo detention house on Friday. He was 63.

They say the 6 others executed on the same day are Yoshihiro Inoue, aged 48; Kiyohide Hayakawa, 68; Tomomasa Nakagawa, 55; Seiichi Endo, 58; Masami Tsuchiya, 53; and Tomomitsu Niimi, 54.

 

[Heckler1]

They won't be missed.

 

[wellthathappened]

Blind sociopath finally pays for his crimes.

*shrug*

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Took 'em long enough

 

[Rumpled Foreskin]

So, I know next to nothing about the Japanese criminal justice system. Do they have appeals that can keep the wheels spinning for years and years? Frankly, I just think they probably tortured the shit out of the guy for over a decade.

 

[TowinKarz]

I think it was more a case of letting him bask in shame until the authorities were satisfied that he had been sufficiently mortified that killing him would be a mercy.

 

[Cthulu]

I love that the Japanese litterally necked these fucks

 

[thismanlies]

Shame they didn't treat him like Ishikawa Goemon and boil his ass alive.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

So, I know next to nothing about the Japanese criminal justice system. Do they have appeals that can keep the wheels spinning for years and years? Frankly, I just think they probably tortured the shit out of the guy for over a decade.

IIRC there is no set execution dates in Japan. If you've been given the death sentence, they can just drag you from your cell and hang you at any time with no warning.

 

[Rumpled Foreskin]

IIRC there is no set execution dates in Japan. If you've been given the death sentence, they can just drag you from your cell and hang you at any time with no warning.

Lol oh so what you’re saying is it’s within the realm of possibility that they literally tortured him to death over the span of a decade, and then “executed” his corpse? Hm.

 

[millais]

So, I know next to nothing about the Japanese criminal justice system. Do they have appeals that can keep the wheels spinning for years and years? Frankly, I just think they probably tortured the shit out of the guy for over a decade.

In Japan, they are not allowed to execute a criminal until not only the criminal, but all accomplices and fellow accused have also exhausted their appeals. So in this case of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, they only finished processing the last appeal from a cult member implicated in the attacks in May, even though this leader guy has been on death row for many years now.

 

[Commander Keen]

I didn't think the nips executed people. Good on them.

Still won't go to Japan or Mexico because their justice systems are shit. I'm saying that as an American, also, and was in favor of a Mexican national being executed.

 

[wellthathappened]

Lol oh so what you’re saying is it’s within the realm of possibility that they literally tortured him to death over the span of a decade, and then “executed” his corpse? Hm.

Tinfoil hat bullshit.

 

[CWCchange]

So, I know next to nothing about the Japanese criminal justice system. Do they have appeals that can keep the wheels spinning for years and years? Frankly, I just think they probably tortured the shit out of the guy for over a decade.

Yes, as if death row waits in America were bad enough... Also, the death penalty in Japan is generally only given when an adult murders multiple people and is declared sane, or special and unique circumstances apply to a single victim, like being killed in a gruesome manner.

I think it was more a case of letting him bask in shame until the authorities were satisfied that he had been sufficiently mortified that killing him would be a mercy.

LOL, you think somebody who did what he did would have any ounce of regret?

I didn't think the nips executed people. Good on them.

Still won't go to Japan or Mexico because their justice systems are shit. I'm saying that as an American, also, and was in favor of a Mexican national being executed.

You better stay away from Italy.

 

[wellthathappened]

The fat fucker was known to be a manipulative sociopath as a youngster. He grew up to continue honing his skills at such.

 

[Billy_Sama]

Was their last meal from Subway?

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Justice sure takes it good old time in the Land of the Rising Sun. Not much was lost here.

 

[Trombonista]

I'm sure it was quite a gas to finally execute him.

 

[CWCchange]

Asahara will forever be imortalized by this meme from an animu about him:

 

[AnOminous]

So, I know next to nothing about the Japanese criminal justice system. Do they have appeals that can keep the wheels spinning for years and years? Frankly, I just think they probably tortured the shit out of the guy for over a decade.

Yes. And they're not allowed to execute you until every single other defendant's case and appeals are resolved. That's why it took them 22 years to kill this motherfucker.