** FILE ** Subway passengers are taken on stretchers from ambulances outside a Tokyo hospital after falling victim of the nerve gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo cult on a subway on March 20, 1995 which killed 12 people and sickened more than 5,500 others. Japan's top court Friday, Sept. 15, 2006 rejected an appeal by the doomsday cult founder Shoko Asahara, a court official said, reportedly finalizing his death sentence for the 1995 nerve-gas attack. (AP Photo/Chiaki Tsukumo, File)