<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoko_Asahara" id="mwAVQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Shoko Asahara">Shoko Asahara</a>, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo" id="mwAVU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Aum Shinrikyo">Aum Shinrikyo</a>, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack" id="mwAVY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tokyo subway sarin attack">Tokyo subway sarin attack</a>.<sup about="#mwt97" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"}}' id="cite_ref-18" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_27#cite_note-18" id="mwAVc" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAVg">[18]</span></a></sup>
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