[Signalman]

10-21 years. Not for assaulting 77 people. Not for raping 77 people. For MURDERING 77 people.

Golly Norway, aren't you being a little too rough on the guy?

[gorush]

This way the parents of the victims will still be alive when he gets out at which time the death penalty comes into play.

[doc1019]

Sad that a country’s judicial system has gone so liberal that this sentence could happen.

[rhinohunter]

The ROP will go through that country like a knife through hot butter.

[mass55th]

Gee, I'm glad he didn't kill 100 people, they would have given him 21 1/2 years.

I can't imagine how the survivors, and the victims' families feel about this.

[Hammerhead]

So if my calculations are correct, that 2.5 months in jail for each person killed.

15 years / 77 = .19 years each (or .20 or 1/5th of a year)

12/5 = 2.5 months

yeh, real nice.

[Afterguard]

So what is that? Four, five months per murdered human being? Just wow.

[Always A Marine]

Norwegians are prisoners within the rigidly secular Therapeutic Society, which cannot condemn evil because it refuses to accept that Evil even exists. Instead, it will seek to "rehabilitate" what cannot be rehabilitated, and its society will ultimately crumble before s stronger invader. I recall a Chuck Colson interview in which he described the fantasyland of Norwegian "justice" - the "justice" which will now seek to rehabilitate this mass murderer. How pathetic.

All of this was foreseen by C.S. Lewis back in the 1930s, when he wrote:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."

As Lewis argued, both the society at large and even the criminal himself deserve the dignity of just punishment for evil acts. The failure to assess just punishment "stings with intolerable insult" to everyone, and is toxic to any society.

[Salman]

That is the maximum possible sentence under their judicial system. There is no “life without parole”.

This is typical of western Europe.

[o-n-money]

Charles Manson could have been out for 22 years now. I’m sure as a solid citizen.

[fella]

Lets see, with time already served and time off for good behavior he should get out in what 2 maybe 3 years?

[SkyDancer]

Something like 99 days per victim?