A Jewish man who killed his children to prevent them from being converted died of cancer in a New Jersey prison. Avi Kostner, who was sentenced to two consecutive life terms last year, admitted that he drugged and strangled his two children because he feared that his former wife, who had remarried, would convert them to Christianity. He was 53.
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