Reply #1: "I pray that Takuma apologi(z)es

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to the eight (little) angels in heaven now that he has paid for his crime in this world," said Kaoru Kurata, the mayor of the suburb the school is located in, in a statement.

Nice sentiment! And so Japanese. (Of course, he was speaking of Japanese children.)

But hanging, I don't know; hanging is for traitors and spies.

Myself, I would have given him the option of Sepuku -- a way to make apologies in this world -- and to die like a man.