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Martin Hassel
Trondheim
Norway

Safety Engineer, Safetec Nordic

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Should extraordinary crimes be given extraordinary punishment?

The Norwegian terrorist and mass-murderer that shot 150 people in cold blood, mostly teens, and detonated a large bomb in downtown Oslo, is facing 21 years of imprisonment in what many criminals would consider nice surroundings. Should a social democracy change it's current judicial system parameters to hand out a more severe punishment, when faced with such pure evil?

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Topics: Capital Punishment murder terrorism violence

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Jul 27 2011: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/opinion/27nesbo.html?_r=1&src=tp

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