Sachiko Eto

, known as The Drumstick Killer, was a Japanese cult leader and serial killer, responsible for six murders in Sukagawa City between 1994 and 1995.

A self-professed guru who claimed to have psychic abilities, she killed several of her cult members during bizarre rituals involving taiko sticks. For her crimes, she was sentenced to death and subsequently executed in 2012. On November 11, 2003, the Sendai High Court dismisses appeals for diminished sentences by the conspirators. On November 12, 2005, Sachiko Eto's appeal was also rejected by the Sendai High Court. On September 16, 2008, her appeal was officially dismissed by the Supreme Court of Japan, thus confirming Eto's death sentence. She was the 10th female prisoner to be sentenced to death after the war. On September 27, 2012, Sachiko Eto was executed in Miyagi Prison, in Sendai. She was the first woman executed in 15 years, and the fourth-in-line starting from 1950.