Kiyohide Hayakawa, 51, was sentenced to death by hanging...

Kiyohide Hayakawa, 51, was sentenced to death by hanging for the 1989 murders of anti-AUM lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto, 33, his wife Satoko, 29, and their 14-month-old son Tatsuhiko and for his role in building a plant to mass produce the nerve gas used in the 1995 attacks on the Tokyo subway. Hayakawa was sentenced by the Tokyo District Court. He appealed against his sentence to a higher court.