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In what year was Shoko Asahara executed?

  • 2014

  • 2016

  • 2018

  • 2020

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Shoko Asahara, the founder of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo responsible for the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack, was executed in 2018. He and 12 other senior members of the cult were sentenced to death for masterminding the attack and other crimes, including murder, kidnapping, and fraud.
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