Man who shot Pope John Paul II to be released, wants to be baptised by Pope Benedict

Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot Pope John Paul II four times in St. Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981, is eligible for release next month, January 2010.
Agca was originally sentenced to life in prison for the shooting, but was pardoned in June 2000 by Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, with the Pope’s blessings. Pope John Paul II had met with Agca in prison on Dec. 27, 1983 and forgave him. Agca spent 19 years and one month in the Italian prison. At the time of his release, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls told RAI television “regarding the truth of what happened May 13 1981, history can still uncover many things”.
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