Tokyo, Japan — The death sentence for a former senior member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult has been finalized after the Supreme Court rejected his plea to change the ruling, informed sources said Saturday.
Kazuaki Okazaki, 44, who was charged with murdering a lawyer, and the lawyer's wife and infant son, as well as an Aum follower in 1989, is the first Aum defendant whose death sentence has been fixed.