(08-27-2012, 10:15 PM)shoju Wrote: Hiring an Assassin? That's a bold step from suggesting that $150 bucks for a gun + ammo would be a better solution than spending in the millions to keep him incarcerated.
I must have misunderstood you. I thought the idea was to simply dispose of him, Scott Evil style. If all you mean is it's cheap to kill him, I assume there are plenty of lethal instruments available to Norway - no need to buy anything. Push him off a fjord, maybe.
Quote:I also never suggested that they should go around Due Process. I suggested that they should add to it, by including the death penalty.
Personally, I think "passing a law" and the bureaucratic-ness that is entailed in that is not the way to do it. In Norway it could be far easier, I'm looking at it from an "american law passing" situation, where it would get dragged through 3 terms of congressman before it was tabled, because of the ridiculous amount of filibustering that it would see due to special interest lobbying.
Looks to me like there are three options to kill him.
1) Kill him without legal process.
2) Legalize the death penalty, then kill him.
3) Create a special law for his case, then kill him.
Both of the last two options involve passing a law, somehow. The first violates due process. (Well, they all involve ex post facto justice, which is dodgy in any country.)
Quote:And isn't my prerogative as a person to question that? Or am I not allowed to question methods?
No. This is all simply counter to your argument that they have no option available to kill him. I'm saying they do have the option - it just involves changing the law. If you mean they have no convenient option to kill him, then I think you're right - but that's a feature, not a bug. If Norwegians wanted judges to have that power, they'd have given it to them.
-Jester