Japan’s Doomsday Cult Leader Behind Gas Attack Executed: Media

Japan’s Doomsday Cult Leader Behind Gas Attack Executed: Media
Japanese doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara sits in a police van following an interrogation in Tokyo, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo September 25, 1995. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS
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TOKYO—The former leader of Aum and several other members of the Japanese doomsday cult that carried out a deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 were executed on July 6, public broadcaster NHK reported.