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Originally Posted by susie123
Cashy is right, there is no life sentence available to give in Norway and it's possible he will get a hard time from his fellow inmates or be kept apart from them for his own safety so it's not all a bed of roses.
When laws are made it's impossible to foresee how they will need to be applied - who would predict that one person would kill so many others at one time? And is it a worse crime than killing just one or two - it's still the taking of life however many it is.
Dianne, you asked the question, what would you do with him?
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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy
Despite what Breivik did, they have one of the lowest crime and Homicide rates in the world.
Their justice system is one of Rehabilitation rather than Punishment.
Personally I would just shoot him, it may be what he wants to become a Martyr, but it solves the problem.
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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
If a person murders in cold blood, whether there's one person or a hundred people involved, life should mean life.
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Wynonie, I do agree that a life sentence should mean just that, in fact my question comes from a prompt on behalf of Less to avoid going off-thread on another post about a petition to enforce a life sentence.
It doesn't exist in Norway apparently and presumably they don't have cumulative sentences otherwise they way forward may have been to try him for each murder separately. There was no doubt about his guilt or his lack of remorse. I think the main question in debate in the trial was really his sanity - I agree with their verdict that he is sane and knew exactly what he was doing and that it was against the law, therefore he is punishable. I don't know about the Norwegian system but I wonder if he may have been detained indefinitely if proved to be insane - it would be a real contradiction if that were the case.
BG -I have never been in favour of taking a life for a life. From what you have written it would be completely against the ethos of the Norwegian justice system to go down that route and while I agree with the idea of Rehabilitation I also believe in Punishment with a capital "P"!
No comforts, hard work and isolation, apart from some form of re-education, would be what I would think appropriate, since you asked Sue. Ultimately, he should have to make some form of reparation to his victims and their families.
Looking at his face in court, during and after the verdict, I think the outcome was exactly what he wanted and had planned which shows that he had thought the whole thing through even to this point knowing how he would be treated.