Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Anders Behring Breivik Said Psychiatric Ward 'Worse Than Death'

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Anders Behring Breivik, who is set to go on trial on April 16 for killing 77 people in Norway last July, said in a letter published on Wednesday that being sentenced to psychiatric care would be the worst fate imaginable.

"To send a political activist to an asylum is more sadistic and more evil than killing him! It is a fate worse than death," the 33-year-old right-wing extremist wrote in a 38-page letter, of which the Verdens Gang (VG) daily published a few extracts.

The letter aims to discredit, point-by-point, a report by two psychiatric experts who concluded late last year that Breivik was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and was therefore criminally insane.

If the Oslo court judges reach the same conclusion at the end of his 10-week trial, the confessed killer will be sentenced to a locked psychiatric ward, possibly for life, rather than prison. » | Source: AFP | Wednesday, April 04, 2012