括弧内はThe Daily Yomiuriの訳。
麻原「死刑」確定
Asahara's death was finalized.
（What are the lessons of Matsumoto's trial?)
１０年５か月にも及んだ「世紀の裁判」は、あっけない結末を迎えた。
A so-called once-in-the-century trial extending for 10 years and five months has come to an end too easily.
(The "trial of century,"which latsted ten years and five months,has come to an unexpectedly abrupt end.)
オウム真理教の麻原彰晃こと松本智津夫被告の裁判で、最高裁判所画、訴訟手続きを巡る弁護団の特別抗告を退けた。松本被告の死刑が確定した。
With the trial of Shoko Asahara of the then Aum Supreme Truth cult,or Chizuo Matsumoto,the Supreme Court rejected the special appeal on the trial proceedings filed by the defense counsel. This finalized the death sentence to the suspect Matsumoto ,which was already handed down to him.
(In its judgement in the case of Chizuo Matsumoto,also known as Shoko Asahara,the founder of the Aum Supreme Truth cult,the Supreme Court rejected a special appeal made by Matsumoto's defense counsel over judicial proceedings, finalizing the death sentence previously given to the cult leader.)
未曾有の犯罪だった。地下鉄、松本両サリン、坂本堤弁護士一家殺害など一連のオウム事件では、２７人の命が奪われ、５０００人を超す負傷者が出た。
These were unprecedented crimes. Twenty-seven people were killed and more than five thousand were injured by a series of crimes, the Aum case, including the Tokyo subway and Matumoto sarin cases, and lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto's family murder case.
(The series of crimes carried out by the cult members was unprecedcented. Including the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway systems and the one in Matsumoto,Nagano Prefecture,and the muders of lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto,who had been helping people with complaints against the cult,as well as his wife and their 1-year-old child,27 lives were claimed ,and more than 5,000 people were injured.)
麻原「死刑」確定
Asahara's death was finalized.
（What are the lessons of Matsumoto's trial?)
１０年５か月にも及んだ「世紀の裁判」は、あっけない結末を迎えた。
A so-called once-in-the-century trial extending for 10 years and five months has come to an end too easily.
(The "trial of century,"which latsted ten years and five months,has come to an unexpectedly abrupt end.)
オウム真理教の麻原彰晃こと松本智津夫被告の裁判で、最高裁判所画、訴訟手続きを巡る弁護団の特別抗告を退けた。松本被告の死刑が確定した。
With the trial of Shoko Asahara of the then Aum Supreme Truth cult,or Chizuo Matsumoto,the Supreme Court rejected the special appeal on the trial proceedings filed by the defense counsel. This finalized the death sentence to the suspect Matsumoto ,which was already handed down to him.
(In its judgement in the case of Chizuo Matsumoto,also known as Shoko Asahara,the founder of the Aum Supreme Truth cult,the Supreme Court rejected a special appeal made by Matsumoto's defense counsel over judicial proceedings, finalizing the death sentence previously given to the cult leader.)
未曾有の犯罪だった。地下鉄、松本両サリン、坂本堤弁護士一家殺害など一連のオウム事件では、２７人の命が奪われ、５０００人を超す負傷者が出た。
These were unprecedented crimes. Twenty-seven people were killed and more than five thousand were injured by a series of crimes, the Aum case, including the Tokyo subway and Matumoto sarin cases, and lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto's family murder case.
(The series of crimes carried out by the cult members was unprecedcented. Including the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway systems and the one in Matsumoto,Nagano Prefecture,and the muders of lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto,who had been helping people with complaints against the cult,as well as his wife and their 1-year-old child,27 lives were claimed ,and more than 5,000 people were injured.)
