Police: Alleged Norwegian mass murderer faces just 21 years in prison

[RonPaulFanInGA]

http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/23/p...-mass-murderer-faces-just-21-years-in-prison/

The alleged mass murderer who killed nearly 100 people in Norway on Friday may be facing just 21 years in prison if convicted. Norway does not have the death penalty.

Oslo police chief of staff Roger Andresen told the San Francisco Chronicle that the maximum prison term suspected killer Anders Behring Breivik could face is 21 years under Norwegian law.

 

[angelatc]

I suspect that Norweigan law will soon be changed.

 

[MelissaWV]

Love the end of that article, and how they slip in the ...

Police are investigating reports of a second assailant.

 

[daviddee]

,,,

 

[angelatc]

I wonder if it's 21 per victim?

Back to 1990? That doesn't seem that long ago to me. Perspective, I guess.

 

[daviddee]

/..

 

[CasualApathy]

Until you have done 20 years in prison I would not make it sound like a short period of time.

This country is so used to throwing around multi-decade sentences for bullshit charges that when you hear 21 years it sounds like nothing.

Think back to 1990. Everything that happened from 1990 to now would be replaced with an image of you watching the wall while your ass is being worked.

21 years is a very long time to be in prison.

This response does not attempt to mitigate what this guy in Norway did... It is to demonstrate how numb people have gotten to the absurd sentences being handed out this country.

Norwegian prisons aren't like that though: http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2008/02/norwegian-prison.html

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Norwegian prisons aren't like that though: http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2008/02/norwegian-prison.html

Yeah. This is a prison in Norway, not a prison in Russia we're talking about here. Television, internet, air conditioning.

If this guy gets 21 years for 92 murders, that's only a couple of months for each victim. That's justice?

 

[Standing Like A Rock]

Norwegian prisons aren't like that though: http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2008/02/norwegian-prison.html

Damn. Looks better than a college dorm.

 

[pcosmar]

Norwegian prisons aren't like that though: http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2008/02/norwegian-prison.html

A cage is still a cage, despite the gilding. Though for a socialist that has never known freedom it may not be so bad.

It does seem a light sentence for the crime.
And though I have doubts that this guy acted alone, he certainly deserves to never have freedom again.

This is why my hopes are always with the final judge.

 

[GreenCardSeeker]

Swedish prisons are even worse, see my clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSAtByo6KGg for a guide to them. Or see these pictures of prisons on the Swedish prison service's webpage:

Note that there's only one inmate per "cell," and that many of the institutions don't actually have any walls.

Mattias Flink, who shot up seven people back in 1994, is serving time in this prison: (he got the placement there so he could be close to his family on furloughs)

 

[fatjohn]

I am for the nice prison look. Not for the short sentences. Where I live in belgium, the wife and help of a notorious 4-6-fold child kidnapper/molester/starve to death'er is being released after 15 years based on good behaviour. That shit makes my blood boil.

 

[VoluntaryAmerican]

I agree-- the goal is to rehabilitate people, not punish and lock away the key.

But in this man's case... I don't see how life in prison does not apply.