The Tokyo District Court in Japan sentenced Masami...

The Tokyo District Court in Japan sentenced Masami Tsuchiya, a former senior member of the Aum Shinri Kyo doomsday cult, to death for his role in making the poison used in a 1995 gas attack on Tokyo's subway that killed 12 people.
Tsuchiya was accused of murder and attempted murder for the Tokyo subway incident as well as a gas attack in a residential area in Matsumoto in central Japan in June 1994 that killed seven and hurt 144, Kyodo news agency said.
Tsuchiya, a chemist, was charged in five other cases, including three incidents in which VX nerve gas was used to kill or harm people, Kyodo said. He had pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Tsuchiya was the 11th Aum member to be sentenced to death. The other 10 have filed appeals. Four of them have filed a second appeal after their death sentences were upheld by high courts.