Tag: Shoko Asihara

• Aum Shinryko: Japan’s largest execution since World War II?

  

  Japan, one of only two members of the G7 to retain capital punishment, the other is the US, has never liked publicity regarding its death penalty. Just as the British used to do until abolition, it’s shrouded in secrecy. Even the condemned don’t know until shortly beforehand that their time has come. The public don’t…

  CrimeScribe

  July 6, 2018

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

  1995, Aum Shinryko, capital punishment, chemical weapons, cult, death, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, executed, execution, gallows, hanged, hanging, History, Japan, journalism, justice, mass murder, media, murder, nerve agent, nerve gas, poison gas, Politics, Sarin, Shoko Asihara, Tokyo, Tokyo subway attack, USA