I recently read that Shoko Asahara was given the death penalty. However it was my understanding that there was no capitol punishment in Japan.

I don't know of statistics there but I did read one story of a digruntled bank employee in Japan who poisoned to death like a dozen coworkers and died having set the record for being the person to live the longest on death-row at some 40-odd years. I think that was from the Guiness book.

The assumed rarity of executions there from the bank-case, I foresee Asahara living for a long-time.

Swaz