Florida dad admits killings to reporters, blames crime on 'spirit'

Dad admits killings to reporters, blames crime on 'spirit'
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NEW: Warrant indicated victims were stabbed, throats slashed, paper reports

NEW: Mesac Damas admits killings, tells reporter he wants to be executed

NEW: He blames the crime on his mother-in-law's "spirit"

Damas, 32, faces murder charges in the deaths of his wife and five children

(CNN) -- A Florida man admitted to reporters that he killed his wife and five "innocent" children, adding that he wants to be executed "right away" so he can be buried with them on Saturday.

Mesac Damas, 32, said he wanted to take his own life, but did not have the courage to go through with it, "because if you kill yourself, you're not going to heaven."

Damas made the statements to a Naples Daily News reporter as he was being led into a Haitian police vehicle in Port-au-Prince. Damas was returned to the United States late Tuesday following his capture in Haiti.
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