Okazaki prays for souls of his victims (reject, religion, death penalty)

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His appeals exhausted and his execution now certain, former Aum Shinrikyo cultist Kazuaki Okazaki says he wants to atone for his crimes ``in whatever way I can-- in the time that is left to him.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected Okazaki-s final appeal, leaving only the sentence of death by hanging to be carried out.

Okazaki, 44, was convicted in the slayings of an anti-Aum lawyer and his f

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10847

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His appeals exhausted and his execution now certain, former Aum Shinrikyo cultist Kazuaki Okazaki says he wants to atone for his crimes ``in whatever way I can-- in the time that is left to him.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected Okazaki-s final appeal, leaving only the sentence of death by hanging to be carried out.

Okazaki, 44, was convicted in the slayings of an anti-Aum lawyer and his f

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10847

I do not believe in the death penalty, and in this case believe that the purpose of it is merely to assuage the grief of the relatives of those he has murdered.