Sayonara!
23 years? They’re as slower with justice as our system.
It’s nice to see not everybody in the entire world is completely stupid.
He’s been on Japan’s death row for more than 20 years.
They don’t tell you it’s your Big Day until just before they take you to meet Mr. Noose.
No chance the hangman screws up and his neck is not broken.
Hanging works.
Much less complicated than needles and drugs.
For everyone commenting on the long wait, the reason is right there in the story.
At the time, this was an unheard of and shocking attack.
I think asahara means a-hole in Japanese.
I didn’t know Japan had the death penalty.
I remember a photo back during the time this outfit was active purporting to show Asahara levitating in a sitting position with his legs crossed.
More in the mold of Mohammed than that of Buddha or Christ.
Hanging. Man, I would have thought the ole samurai sword to the neck. Or let him gut himself.
Bravo. I like that they just string ‘em up - no need to get fancy, no special drugs or anything. Ropes are cheap and effective. I also like that they don’t tell them when the big day is so they must live with the stress of not knowing every single day until the day comes.
Something north of 10,000 people had to go the the hospital and maybe 7 people died.
Sarin was suspended in water inside of plastic bags; they placed the bags on the train car floor, then used umbrella tips to pierce the bags, promptly exiting.
They selected the subway system since it’s a confined airspace; dispersion would be minimized.
They were most angry at the Japanese bureaucracy so as the focus of their attack they chose KasumiGaSeki station (which services the area in Tokyo for most of the elite bureacracies) during the peak of the morning commute.
They were many other aspects of the cult that are less well known;
They had bought a huge Russian helicopter and planned to later spray ALL of Tokyo with nerve agents, they had also bought a Soviet Golf class submarine.
LOTS AND LOTS of insance stuff, too.
Their primary recruiting success had some in the former Soviet Union, they even recruited several people in a secretive weapons lab.
Some people believe they MIGHT have exploded a primitive nuke in a highly remote part of Australia.
SURPRISED! I thought the Japanese would move quicker than this. This idiot was responsible for many injured and maimed.
I lived in Japan during the aftermath of the terror attack.
It was a big, big deal and there was a hardcore, sustained manhunt to capture all the perps. It went on for years.
I still have one of the wanted posters.
I don’t think the Japanese have left-wing judges causing trouble every time they try to apply punishment, so they can have some fun ‘playing around’ with that beast for 20 years or so...making sure he pays big time.
Totally different here - if we don’t efficiently execute killers, there’s a good chance that a judge or a change of direction of the Supreme Court will not only end their death sentence, but even set them loose.
I’m personally surprised they still have the death penalty. Wonder if they used a katana?