TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Friday executed the leader and six members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult that carried out a deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, killing 13 people.
Japan is one of only two members of the Group of Seven advanced democracies to execute criminals. The United States is the other.
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