It would sound like a storyline on Breaking Bad, if it wasn't so real.

With an epidemic rash of drug cartel carnage in Mexico accounting for as many as 10,000 killings a year there in the past eight years, more violent offenders are turning to religion -- specifically, receiving exorcisms -- as a means to eliminate the urge for bloodshed, according to religious officials and experts.

Fueling the phenomenon, in part, are the cartels' strong belief in the folk saint Santa Muerte (Spanish for St. Death), a symbol of everything for pro