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Japanese court upholds death sentence for ex-Aum cult member
More articles on this topic: Aum ShinrikyoThe Tokyo High Court upheld the death sentence on a former senior AUM Shinrikyo cultist Thursday [18 September] for his involvement in two separate murder cases and in building a plant to mass-produce nerve gas.
Presiding Judge Atsushi Semba affirmed the Tokyo District Court’s sentence, handed down in 2000, on Satoru Hashimoto, 36, finding him guilty of killing Yokohama lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto, 33, his wife Satoko, 29, and their one-year-old son Tatsuhiko in November 1989.
“His acts were extremely cruel and inhumane…[ellipsis as received] There is no choice of sentencing him to life imprisonment,” Semba said in handing down the ruling.
Sakamoto was the leader of a group of lawyers helping families whose relatives joined the cult.
The court also affirmed Hashimoto deserves the death penalty for his part in a sarin nerve gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, in 1994, as well as in building a sarin gas plant in Kamikuishiki, Yamanashi Prefecture, between 1993 and 1994.
The nerve gas attack killed seven people and injured many others.
Defence lawyers argued that the death sentence is too severe, saying Hashimoto’s mind was under the control of AUM founder Shoko Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, and that Hashimoto had no intention to commit the crimes.
The lawyers said they plan to appeal to the Supreme Court.
In connection with crimes involving the cult, which renamed itself Aleph in 2001, a total of nine people have appealed after receiving capital punishment in their first trials. A high court upheld the death sentence on two people other than Hashimoto, and they have appealed to the Supreme Court.
The crimes involving the cult include the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack that left 12 people dead and thousands injured.
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