Brevik convicted

[Filuwaúrdjan]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19365616

[Filuwaúrdjan]

How old will he be 21 years?  Still capable of shooting people, I would think.

It's far more likely that he'd be found hanging from a lamppost were that to happen (and it won't). The thing about long prison sentences for known reprobates is that part of the point is to spare the legal system the embarrassment of dealing with a lynching.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Norway has certainly shown how the rule of law should work.

Yes, it's unusual to be even slightly impressed with a court case, but this has been a little different; any mystique that might have attached itself Brevik has been preemptively squashed.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I don't see why people are bringing up the death penalty; it's really not an issue in this case for multiple reasons, at least two of which are too obvious to bother pointing out. Not everything is about the cross between psychodrama and showbusiness that we call American Politics.