Well the result of the Breivik trial in Norway has just completed with Breivik being declared sane and sentenced to jail by the panel of judges.

http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16190558,00.html

He was officially sentenced to 21 years jail with a minimum term of 10 years, but before everyone gets completely outraged like the rest of the morons on the internet reacting exactly as the sensationalist news outlets want, I thought I'd try to explain the Norwegian legal system (which has similarities to the German model) from my admittedly limited understanding. The concept is basically to allow for the possibility of rehabilitating anyone regardless of what they have done, while still allowing those who should not be part of society to remain separated from it permanently.

In the simplest terms, the maximum term available for the judges to give was 21 years, but they have in effect declared him not suitable to ever be reintroduced into society. Once he has served his time, the judicial system has the ability to add 5 years if they deem him unfit to be released, indefinitely. Considering what he has done, and what the judges have declared, there is no chance that he will ever be released from incarceration.

Predictable outcome.

Man surely this is dude deserves a bullet or two.

One in both kneecaps. Leave him in a paddock to starve / be eaten by the crows, imo.

Being in Jail for the rest of his life is light (considering they haven't had a peacetime execution since 1876)?

thanks for the explanation, otherwise i was straight on the 'soft' bandwagon.

understanding their system now it seems that's the max so not much else they could do.

Lol

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On the money. He's in jail for his actions, not his thoughts/beliefs. He wont ever be getting out. However i have no doubt he will try to earn as much money by writing books about his actions and beliefs. I doubt he will change his belief though as thats what he has been using to justify his actions.

Based on how he has behaved since his apprehension, I don't think anyone would have ever expected him to show any sort of displeasure, regardless of the result.

He won't be kept in jail based on his attitude and story, he'll be kept in jail based on whether it seems like someone who killed 70+ people in cold blood is likely to become a positive member of society again.I'd imagine he would get very bored though, being permanently in solitary confinement with just a small personal exercise yard. Personally I wouldn't have even provided him with the computer with a word processor that they have, or let him sell his story or even tell it to anyone, as that seems to be just giving him what he wants.

Norway has a different prison system to a lot of the world, but like so many other areas it too is superior to most. I don't see him being put into a cage like a US prison, also I don't see why he should not be able to write a book, though I assume he will not be able to profit from it. Could fairly easily argue that it would be profiting from a crime, perhaps if it was purely about his beliefs.

I would have declared him sane and then placed him in the psych wards anyway.