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7 Aum Shinrikyo cult leaders executed in Japan

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43395483

Seven members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult which carried out a deadly chemical attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995 have been executed, including cult leader Shoko Asahara.The Sarin attack, Japan's worst terror incident, killed 13 people and injured thousands more.
The executions took place at a Tokyo detention house on Friday morning.
Japan does not give prior notice of executions, but they were later confirmed by the justice ministry.
Shoko Asahara, 63, and his followers were also accused of several other murders and an earlier Sarin gas attack in 1994 which killed eight and left 600 injured.
Their execution, by hanging, had been postponed until all those convicted had completed their final appeals. That happened in January.
Another six members of the cult are still on death row.

... The death penalty is only used for serious cases of murder. Officials do not give advance public notice of executions, and those condemned usually learn they are scheduled to die just a few hours beforehand.
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should these guilty persons have been executed?
 
justabubba said:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43395483



should these guilty persons have been executed?
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Normally I'm not a supporter of the death penalty due to it not being reversible if the wrong person is convicted... however, in this instance it appears the correct persons have been convicted so I tend to rely on the Japanese courts and support their ruling.
 
I never condone state killings.

I believing the only lawful reason to take a life, is in justifiable self-defense of another life.

If an individual is safely behind bars, they are removed as a threat. Killing them then, turns society into killers in my opinion.
 
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