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Letters of executed cult members reflect regret, desire to live

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"At the time, I thought I was fighting for truth and salvation, but all I got from resorting to terrorism was pain and sorrow," he wrote in one of his letters sent to a civic group.

he is still only thinking of himself.

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ebisen,

Every act of murder is insanity. That's what it is. "The unlawful premeditated killing of one or more persons." They may think it out "perfectly logically" (in their own mind), but there are going to be some huge gaps in reasoning.

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should have been done years ago, why should Japanese support them for so long.

Do you know anything at all about due process and how the system here in Japan works? I suppose you are like the folks who think once the initial verdict was handed down they should have been taken out back and shot.

Believe it or not, once the sentences were verified for all the defendants in this case the executions happened at a light speed pace for here, and all 7 going on the same day was unprecedented as well.

Learn about the system here, even the worst criminals, no matter their crimes, deserve and should receive due process!

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Evil is the word for them. Well done Japan ridding the planetof this scum.

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There will never be jutice and their is no such thing as atonement. They murdered, proving themselves unfit for human society and have been destroyed.

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should have been done years ago, why should Japanese support them for so long.

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"My feelings of apology toward the victims and their families have never weakened in the 23 years since everything came to light," said Hayakawa, who was arrested in 1995 and sentenced to death in 2009.

So, moments after the first victim of his poison gas was asphyxiated he felt apologetic?

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Bertie, I +1ed you, although I don't agree with you :) . They seemed insane when viewed from our point of view, but their actions were extremely well calculated pieces of inteligence. Actually every murder is an act of insanity, by this logic.

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There is nothing to understand. These murders were acts of insanity. The whole point of insanity is that it is incomprehensible. So why try to understand it?

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Good riddance.

"If (the executions) are carried out, 'the correct answer' will never be known

If Asahara didn't answer the "correct answers" after all this time, he never would have done so. Or worse, he would have tried coercing more minds into condoning his acts. That's what zealots do.

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Things suddenly got real, now that the leader has been executed. Not so tough now are ya?

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Bwahahaha! Yeah, they wanted to atone after being locked in a cell for twenty years. It’s a shame they didn’t think of that before they poisoned the Tokyo subway. Twits! Burn those letters and forget these psychos ever existed!

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And what about their victims' desire

to live?

They all got what they deserved. Well done Japan for snuffing out their pitiless lives.

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"I would like to hand down stories about what happened and live on to atone for my sins."

You had many uninterrupted years in prison, you could have written a book about it.

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I am relieved these evil people, child killers and terrorists, were finally extinguished. Justice at last for the many victims and familys.

As for critics of Death Penalty. This is how Japan works, and keeps crime rates lowest in world.

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