Sarin gas attack cult man sentenced to death

A former doomsday cult member has been sentenced to death by the Tokyo High Court today for a 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo’s subways, overturning a lower court ruling condemning him to life in prison.

Yoshihiro Inoue, 34, was one of several Aum Shinri Kyo agents accused of being directly involved in the attack, in which cult members riding five subway trains converging on the capital’s government district punctured plastic bags filled with sarin nerve gas.