Death penalty sought for AUM ex-member for lawyer's murder

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors on Dec. 17 asks for the death sentence for Kiyohide Hayakawa (file photo), a former leading member of the AUM Shinrikyo religious group, for his part in the murder of a lawyer and his family in 1989. Hayakawa, 50, has been indicted, along with AUM founder Chizuo Matsumoto and four others, for murdering Tsutsumi Sakamoto, his wife Satoko and their 1-year-old son Tatsuhiko at their home in Yokohama in November 1989. Sakamoto was a lawyer who was handling several legal suits against the sect.

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