TOKYO — Thirteen Japanese cult members may be sent to the gallows any day now for a deadly 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and other crimes. Tuesday marks 23 years since members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult punctured plastic bags to release sarin nerve gas inside subway cars, sickening thousands and killing 13. Ten of those on death row were convicted for the subway attack, a number beyond the Tokyo detention center’s daily capacity. If all 10 subway attack convicts are hanged, it would be the second-largest number executed on a single day in Japan’s modern history. The cult claimed 10,000 members in Japan and 30,000 in Russia.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 20, 2018 02:14 UTC