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Originally Posted by Hottentot
The point that I repeat whenever this subject comes up is that we, as a society, can't start making exceptions to the law because we feel like it. There either is a death penalty or there isn't.
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I would agree, but I still have some mixed feelings on the subject of capital punishment. Here in Canada the death penalty was eliminated in 1976, but there have been some cases where I would not have disagreed with it, especially the case of Clifford Olson, who murdered eleven teenagers in the early 80's. He was arrested and convicted in 1981 and he died in 2011 at the age of 71. His application for parole under Canada's "faint hope clause", which allowed a parole hearing for convicts who had served at least 15 years, was an insult to the victims families. Under Canadian law, Olson was then entitled to make a case for parole every two years. More salt in the wound.
Still I am glad that we don't have the death penalty in this country.
As other posters have said, the best punishment for Breivik is to have him become a non entity. Denying him his mad dreams and wishes is the best a civilized society can do.