Breivik

[applelover]

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I do support sterilization and the removal of the right to vote ....... for people who support the death penalty.

 

[OldBlueLady]

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I do support sterilization and the removal of the right to vote ....... for people who support the death penalty.

Bit extreme don't you think?

 

[applelover]

I'd make an exception for you obl, but only because you're a benfleet blue.

 

[South Bank Hank]

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I do support sterilization and the removal of the right to vote ....... for people who support the death penalty.

No point in a right to vote if that right is subject to having the 'right' opinions. Bizarre.

 

[OldBlueLady]

I'd make an exception for you obl, but only because you're a benfleet blue.

Thanks....I think!

 

[applelover]

No point in a right to vote if that right is subject to having the 'right' opinions. Bizarre.

SBH is definitely getting sterilized and won't be making any future trips to the polling booth

 

[steveo]

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I do support sterilization and the removal of the right to vote ....... for people who support the death penalty.

So what possible reason is there for this bloke to live given that he is a self confessed murderer and by his own admission is sane?

 

[Gremlin]

So what possible reason is there for this bloke to live given that he is a self confessed murderer and by his own admission is sane?

Because Norway is not a third world state?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

So what possible reason is there for this bloke to live given that he is a self confessed murderer and by his own admission is sane?

Because Norway is a civilised country and they don't have the death penalty there?

 

[Swiss Tony]

Because Norway is a civilised country and they don't have the death penalty there?

Easy to say Barnas when those poor kids weren't yours,i say let him swing.

 

[pickledseal]

So what possible reason is there for this bloke to live given that he is a self confessed murderer and by his own admission is sane?

Keep him in prison without freedom for the rest of his life or end all his suffering quickly and painlessly? I know what I'd want as a parent of a murdered child... Let him suffer!

 

[OldBlueLady]

Keep him in prison without freedom for the rest of his life or end all his suffering quickly and painlessly? I know what I'd want as a parent of a murdered child... Let him suffer!

You can't know that unless you are in the same position. I just know that I disagree with public money being wasted on such a person.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Because Norway is a civilised country and they don't have the death penalty there?

Easy to say Barnas when those poor kids weren't yours,i say let him swing.

Quite frankly Tony that wouldn't have made any difference to my opinion.I share your compassion for those poor kids though.That's what we should be talking about.Not him.

 

[pickledseal]

You can't know that unless you are in the same position. I just know that I disagree with public money being wasted on such a person.

There is some fascinating stuff from US where families were desperate for death penalty - but then were in the room watching them die, seeing the murderers parents go through what they did, and actually decided that the want for the death penalty was a far greater feeling than the reality and the reality kind of made them feel empty. It's on my school computer somewhere!

 

[steveo]

Keep him in prison without freedom for the rest of his life or end all his suffering quickly and painlessly? I know what I'd want as a parent of a murdered child... Let him suffer!

Let him suffer? You could throw the bloke into a 50 foot deephole and leave him with nothing to eat or drink. If he sustained a few injuries on the way in so much the better. That would work.

 

[Bluesmanager]

Dead in three days. Gotta make it last.

 

[OldBlueLady]

There is some fascinating stuff from US where families were desperate for death penalty - but then were in the room watching them die, seeing the murderers parents go through what they did, and actually decided that the want for the death penalty was a far greater feeling than the reality and the reality kind of made them feel empty. It's on my school computer somewhere!

Yeah, I quite understand that argument, and there's a lot to be said for everyone being someone's son or daughter, but I would find it quite hard to understand the parents of someone like Breivik, mourning his loss in such a way. More likely they would be mourning the loss of the child he used to be and possibly blaming themselves for having let him down somehow.

Personally, I'd question why you would want to watch someone die unless you absolutely had to (those medically required etc). As the parents of the victim/s in particular, why would you want to? Surely you'd be satisfied with knowing that the death penalty had been carried out. As the parents of the murderer, well, again, if your child had grown up to be the type of person that carried out such an horrific act, would you really want to?

 

[Bluesmanager]

Same reason the vic's parents always want to see the body I suppose - they don't think he's dead until they've seen his corpse.

 

[londonblue]

Is death worse than life in prison?

Well it certainly looks like prison isn't sitting comfortably with him:

BBC

Anyone else thinking he only started a university course so that he could drop out and blame it on his conditions?

 

[OldBlueLady]

Well it certainly looks like prison isn't sitting comfortably with him:

BBC

Anyone else thinking he only started a university course so that he could drop out and blame it on his conditions?

Don't even get me started.......

How much is this appeal costing the Norwegian people? :angry: