So as some of you may have heard already - Anders Behring Breivik has been decleared INSANE. According to Norwegian law, insane people cannot be sentenced to prison or preventive detention. He can, however, be confined to a mental hospital for the rest of his life.
CNN:
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Anders Behring Breivik suffers "grandiose delusions" and "believes he is chosen to decide who is to live and who is to die," Prosecutor Svein Holden announced.
Police said psychiatrists had determined that the 32-year-old man was psychotic at the time of the attacks and during 13 interviews experts conducted with him afterward. The doctors also found him to be paranoid and schizophrenic, police said."
LA Times:
"A psychiatric evaluation has found that Anders Behring Breivik, the man who killed 77 people in Norway in July, was clinically insane at the time of the attacks, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The finding
could pave the way for psychiatric treatment instead of a prison sentence for the right-wing, anti-Muslim militant, according to Norwegian law.
After hours of interviews with Breivik, two forensic psychiatrists concluded that he was a paranoid schizophrenic who operated in his own "delusional universe""
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So the question is simple; Do you agree that INSANE people should be put into mental care institutions rather than prisons?
(PS. Death penalty is not the issue here. Norway does not have death penalty.)
