Douglas Yim, 33, was convicted in September of murdering a 25-year-old man in Oakland, Calif., in 2011 after an evening of teasing by the man, who mocked Yim’s certainty about the existence of God. A 27-year-old yoga fanatic in St. Austell, England, was drowned in a pit in May during a well-publicized attempt to create an “out-of-body experience” to get as close to death as possible without going over the line. o
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