Posted on 12/02/2004 3:53:40 PM PST by BurbankKarl
The Swedish Supreme Court has sentenced the confessed killer of foreign minister Anna Lindh to life imprisonment. In doing so, the panel over-ruled an appeals court which had ordered psychiatric care for Mijailo Mijailovic.
The son of Serbian immigrants had confessed to stabbing Lindh to death last year, but had claimed he was responding to voices in his head. His lawyer, Mikael Nilsson, says Mijailovic will now apply to serve his sentence in Serbia.
Nilsson told Swedish Television news that Mijailovic ”realises the potential threat against him is great in Sweden, both in jail and in society at large, so he wants to serve his time” in Serbia.
Anna Lindh, who was married and had two children, was stabbed repeatedly in an apparently unmotivated attack while shopping at a Stockholm department store. She died of her wounds the next day.
Supreme Court overruled Appeals Court order for psychological care.
I have heard of this kind of thing before (bascially deporting someone to their home country to serve a prison sentence). How can the Swedes guarantee that the Serbs will actually hold him in prison for life rather than letting him out in 3 months on good behaviour?
More on the Mijailovic story to the Swedish Ping List.
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It sounds like Europe has no concept of Life without parole, ,because the only way an American would serve only 20 years for a life term is if the sentence was "20-to-life" or something like that.
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