Shoko Asahara was sentenced to death. It happened in February 2004. The main leader of a fatal gas attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995 has had an appeal against his death sentence rejected by a court in Japan. The court said Shoko Asahara's lawyers failed to introduce their case by the legal dead-line and defective claims he was mentally unfit to appear in court. Psychiatric tests, took place last month, found Asahara was fit to continue his appeal. The case will now direct to the Supreme Court. In case it rejects the appeal, Asahara will be executed by hanging. The former head of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, Asahara was found guilty of realizing the sarin gas attacks in 1995. 12 people died and about 5,500 were injured in that accident. A Japanese court sentenced Asahara to death in February 2004.

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