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Originally Posted by Hottentot
That's why I would keep an extra careful watch for how our society is treating the criminals and on what the sentences are based on. In this sense Norway couldn't have acted better. The public pressure must have been high, but the common sense won in the end.
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Agreed. It was handled without hysteria. In the long run I think this will help the victims' families deal with their loss.
As a further comment on the death penalty; I believe the best reason for not having it is the possibility of killing an innocent person. Here in Canada we have a long and shameful list of wrongly convicted people. Some of them probably would have been executed for their alleged crimes. One such case was that of David Milgaard who was convicted of murdering 22-year-old nursing assistant Gail Miller in 1969 in Saskatoon. Milgaard spent 23 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
But on the other end of the scale is Olsen who led police to all eleven of his victims bodies and confessed to their murders. In this case, well ....
I'm glad I don't have to make that decision.