Aum Shinrikyo executes Matsumoto and 7 others
July 6, 2018, Tokyo, Japan - A pedestrian watches news flash on TV in Tokyo, reporting the execution of a cult leader and six of his followers on Friday, July 6 Shoko Asahara, founder of the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo and mastermind behind the deadly 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system among other crimes in the 1980s and '90s. Six other condemned Aum members were also executed separately. Sakai/AFLO) AYF -mis-