Related
Translate
Previous entry: High Court Upholds Death Sentence on AUM’s Hayakawa
Next entry: Playboy model says killer held her spellbound
Get RNB via RSS
 |
RNB's RSS feed What is this? |
Get RNB via Email
 |
 Subscribe by Email What is this? |
Follow: Twitter
Most Popular
This Week:
- Guyana’s Jonestown suicide site gets plaque
- Gaddafi preaches Islam to Rome beauties
- Scientology practices ‘putting people at risk’
- Recession: Muslim schools in UK under threat of closure
- Australian senator tells Parliament of widespread criminal conduct within the Church of Scientology
- When a child dies, faith is no defense
- Muslim terrorists smuggle fatwas promoting Jihad out of secure UK prisons
- Techie Holy water and geeky bishops
- Israel Charges Extremist With Attempted Murder Of Messianic Family
- 1-year prison term for man who participated in cyber attack on Church of Scientology Web sites
Japanese court upholds death sentence for Aum doomsday cult member
More articles on this topic: Aum ShinrikyoTOKYO: A Japanese court has upheld the death sentence for a former Aum Supreme Truth cult member over the murder of an anti-sect lawyer and his family.
The Tokyo High Court rejected an appeal by Kiyohide Hayakawa, 54, who built a plant to produce the Nazi-invented Sarin nerve gas at the foot of Mount Fuji.
The Aum cult earned worldwide notoriety in March 1995 by spreading Sarin on the Tokyo subway, killing 12 people and injuring thousands.
Hayakawa was convicted of strangling Tsutsumi Sakamoto, 33, his 29-year-old wife and baby son in 1989, constructing the Sarin plant and the murder of a cult follower, among other crimes.
The bodies of Sakamoto, an anti-cult campaigner who gave advice to cult deserters, his wife Satoko and one-year-old son were only discovered in September 1995, buried in shallow graves.
Hayakawa was sentenced to hang in July 2000. Hayakawa was convicted of personally throttling Sakamoto’s wife as the couple begged the Aum followers not to harm their baby boy.
The defence counsel for Hayakawa had argued his mind had been under the control of Aum guru Shoko Asahara, who was himself sentenced to death in February after a marathon trial.
What You Can Do From Here
|
Read More Articles On These Topics
Share, Blog About, Bookmark, or Email This Article
Subscribe
Read Another Article
Previous entry: High Court Upholds Death Sentence on AUM’s Hayakawa Next entry: Playboy model says killer held her spellbound
RNB Homepage with latest headlinesFind Related Information
Find Related Books
|
Share This Article
To share this page simply copy and paste one of these URL's:
