Japan executed two people yesterday, one of them a 65-year-old cult leader convicted of six murders that took place during supposed exorcisms.
The Justice Ministry said Sachiko Eto and 39-year-old Yukinori Matsuda were hanged. Matsuda was convicted of killing two people in a robbery in 2003.
Eto turned to faith healing after she and her husband joined a cult, according to Japanese media reports.
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