TOKYO—Japan executed the remaining six death-row inmates involved in a doomsday cult that spread nerve gas on the Tokyo subway in 1995, ending the main legal process for an episode that traumatized the nation for years.
The executions early Thursday followed the hanging of the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult and six of his followers on July 6. Japan executes some death-row prisoners most years but the total of 13 executions so far this year is the highest in a decade.
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