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In reply to the discussion: So we kill someone to show that killing someone is wrong [View all]Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)56. Anders Breivik

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik
On 22 July 2011, Breivik bombed government buildings in Oslo, which resulted in eight deaths.
Within a few hours of the explosion he arrived at Utøya island, the site of a Norwegian Labour Party youth camp, posing as a police officer in order to take the ferry to the island, and then opened fire on the unarmed adolescents present, killing 69.[63][64][65] The youngest victim was Sharidyn Svebakk-Bøhn of Drammen,[66] who was 14 years old.[67] Another victim was Trond Berntsen, the step-brother of Crown Princess Mette-Marit (the son of Princess Mette-Marit's late stepfather).[68]
On 24 August 2012 Breivik was adjudged sane and sentenced to containmenta special form of a prison sentence that can be extended indefinitelywith a time frame of 21 years and a minimum time of 10 years, the maximum penalty in Norway.[104] Breivik's lead counsel Geir Lippestad confirmed that his client would not appeal the sentence.[27]
The court stated that "many people share Breivik's conspiracy theory, including the Eurabia theory. The court finds that very few people, however, share Breivik's idea that the alleged 'Islamisation' should be fought with terror."[105]
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You must love china, iran, iraq.......check the list that do and the ones that don't. nt
Logical
May 2015
#32
no amount of due process justifies the cold-blooded, premeditated, and unnecessary killing of humans
unblock
May 2015
#48
I have nothing against the death penalty. In this case. I would have preferred Life. Why?
Katashi_itto
May 2015
#14
No, a year of torture is nothing compared to being entombed the rest of your life.
Katashi_itto
May 2015
#45
Killing is wrong. Let the man rot in jail remembering the suffering his actions caused.
In_The_Wind
May 2015
#15
I think you're being deliberately obtuse. Killing innocent people is wrong.
Donald Ian Rankin
May 2015
#16
Were the soldiers storming Normandy wrong for killing the defending Germans?
Hassin Bin Sober
May 2015
#47
Amazing how other progressive countries realize it is wrong. And you and the USA don't. nt
Logical
May 2015
#33
I'm opposed to the death penalty on principle, but I don't think that's the reason it's imposed.
MH1
May 2015
#24
I'm gonna second that "fuck him". If that makes me a manly American boner intertubes tough guy
Warren DeMontague
May 2015
#84
i find it hard to separate the sentiment in this case from the shitty thing he did.
Warren DeMontague
May 2015
#89
Folks are too stupid, or lazy, to understand the difference between retribution and revenge, is my theory.
Fred Sanders
May 2015
#58
For every criminal we execute, we should execute a random death penalty supporting politician.
hunter
May 2015
#64
Or for every Life without Parole criminal, we should also sentance a random anti-DP politician
FLPanhandle
May 2015
#67
I'm sorry but what you have described is revenge. It is natural to feel anger and want to
liberal_at_heart
May 2015
#71
You are right. When we allow ourselves to give in to revenge we let the darkness take over and that
liberal_at_heart
May 2015
#76
Our default setting is base instinct such as fear, anger, hate, revenge. It takes effort to get off
liberal_at_heart
May 2015
#79
I'm wondering where all the people went who said anything more than 10 years would be "inhumane"
Warren DeMontague
May 2015
#83