The Pew Research Center has one of those quizzes where you get to see where THEY place you.
Of course you have to confess where you fall. I didn’t like some of the choices.
Norwegian killer of 77 gets 21 years–Americans languish in prison for decades
From the WashingtonPost.com:
Anders Behring Breivik receives a sentence of up to 21 years for bomb and gun attacks that killed 77 people last year and terrorized a nation. The sentence is the maximum allowed under Norwegian law and can be extended.
Twenty-one years for mowing down 77 people in cold blood seems like a very small amount of time to to serve in prison. If he had done that same crime anywhere in the United States, his butt would never see the light of day. (And rightly so, in my opinion.) Americans are hard-nosed about their crime and punishment.
Constrast the Norwegian situation to a local Virginia situation. Michael Wayne Hash of Culpeper has been set free after spending 12 years in prison for allegedly murdering a 74 year old organist. The lady was shot in the head 4 times. Hash was convicted and given life in prison at age 19.
