Serial Rapist Asks Judge For Death Penalty

A serial rapist who pleaded guilty to assaulting three women in Honolulu told the judge he wants to die.

Asofitu Fio, who admitted to eight counts of sexual assault and three counts of kidnapping, was sentenced to 40 years in prison. He spoke to the judge through a translator in a Hawaii court on Tuesday, KITV reports.

"I know how serious the crimes I have committed and I believe I deserve the death sentence," said Fio.

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Capital punishment has been illegal in Hawaii since 1957.

In 2013, Fio led the Honolulu Police Department on one of the department's biggest manhunts. According to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Police Chief Louis Kealoha said more than 60 officers were involved in solving the case after several women said they were raped in similar ways by a man that matched the same description.

After DNA taken from a crime scene matched a sample from Fio, the 30-year old Samoan admitted to approaching the victims in the doorway of their homes and raping them. Deputy City Prosecutor Rochelle Vidinha says that Fio also punched, choked and smothered his victims, and told them he would kill them if they went to the police.

Fio's lawyer couldn't be reached for comment.

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A fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment Monday, Dec 30, 2013, in Casselton, N.D. The train carrying crude oil derailed near Casselton Monday afternoon. Several explosions were reported as some cars on the mile-long train caught fire. (Bruce Crummy/AP)

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Smoke rises from the burning Jianye building on December 15, 2013 in Guangzhou, China. A fire broke out in the unfinished Jianye Building at about 7 p.m. on Sunday with around 380 firemen attending the blaze, authorities have yet to say whether there are any casualties. (ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)

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Firefighters battle a blaze in a building on the Seaside Park boardwalk on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, in Seaside Park, N.J. The fire began in a frozen custard stand on the Seaside Park section of the boardwalk and quickly spread north into neighboring Seaside Heights. (Julio Cortez/AP)

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Indian Fire officials rescue a girl from the debris of a collapsed building in Mumbai, India, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The multi-story residential building collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai early Friday, killing at least three people and sending rescuers racing to reach dozens of people feared trapped in the rubble. (AP)

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Rescuers search for survivors after an oil pipeline exploded on November 24, 2013 in Qingdao, China. The death toll from the blast that occurred in Huangdao district on Friday morning has risen to 52, with 11 others still missing. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)

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In this handout photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), NTSB workers inspect the wreckage of a UPS cargo plane that crashed in a field outside of Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport August 14, 2013 in Birmingham, Alabama. The pilot and co-pilot died in the crash but no other injuries were reported.

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Exhausted firefighters take a rest while fire burns close by, on Crangan Bay Road, on October 18, 2013 in Nords Wharf, Australia. One man has died and hundreds of properties have been destroyed in bushfires that are devastating the Blue Mountains and Central Coast regions of New South Wales.

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Firefighters try to contain a fire at an informal diesel fuel depot in Lagos, Nigeria on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. Witnesses said no one was injured in the fire that consumed a number of trucks at the site. Authorities continue to investigate what caused the blaze. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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A fire burns at the ecological reserve near the Puerto Madero neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Firefighters worked to put out the flames on the south side of the city, a few blocks from the political and financial center. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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