JAPAN: DEATH SENTENCE AFFIRMED IN SARIN ATTACK

in Japan, the Second Petty Bench of the Supreme Court rejected appeals by Toru Toyota, 41, and Kenichi Hirose, 45, who were convicted of murder in the 1995 sarin subway attack. "It was an indiscriminate mass murder committed systematically for the purpose of defending the cult as an organisation," the court said in its decision.