Japanese newspaper, Mainichi Shimbun, reported that Asahara is the first of 13 individuals set to be hanged for the 1995 attack.
Asahara, 63, was executed on Friday, according to the Mainichi Shimbun.
Shoko Asahara, who was born Chizuo Matsumoto, was sentenced to death for the March 1995 attack on the Tokyo subway, which killed 13 and injured more than 6,200 people.
Asahara was executed along with several former followers. He was on death row since 2004 after the court found him guilty of 13 charges, including orchestrating the 1995 attack and the June 1994 sarin attack in Nagano Prefecture, which claimed eight lives.
The former guru was also convicted of a series of murders, including the 1989 killing of the one-year-old son of lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto and his wife, who were helping parents to free their children from the cult’s clutches.
The sarin attack on 20 March 1995, shocked Japan, with 191 former Aum members being indicted on various criminal charges in years following the attack. The execution of Asahara and 12 other individuals sentenced to death alongside him have been delayed for years due to the peculiarities of the Japanese judicial system.
