Posted on 08/16/2018 10:17:51 AM PDT by chajin
Seven leading members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyō, including its founder Matsumoto Chizuo (Asahara Shōkō), were executed on July 6, 2018, for their roles in masterminding a series of major crimes including the March 1995 sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway lines that resulted in the deaths of 13 people [snip]...The decision to execute prisoners now is said to have been based on the difficulty of doing so in 2019, as the year of the imperial succession, or 2020, when the Tokyo Olympic Games will take place.
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23 years later???
How can this be? Liberals are always saying that only two countries in the world still have capital punishment: the United States and (insert name of third-world hellhole here).
The decision to execute prisoners now is said to have been based on the difficulty of doing so in 2019, as the year of the imperial succession, or 2020, when the Tokyo Olympic Games will take place. ............................. Hey, maybe we have a new Olympic event in the works? Every death row prisoner can participate in.
Appeals system is just like America, long and arduous.
A Mexican friend of mine notes that Mexico doesn't formally have capital punishment, but they have a lot of unsuccessful prison escapes . . . if you get my drift.
Dawson practiced all his professional career for that performance.
He was awesome.
The book was only ok compared to the movie.
And that was before I learned to loathe the author.
My wife and some of my kids were riding the subway into Tokyo that day. My eldest daughter started feeling poorly, so they got off and climbed to street level.
Cold sweat.
Glad those scumbags are finally dead.
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