Norway’s Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed he carried\u00a0out Friday’s\u00a0bombing and murder spree at a youth camp —\u00a0and published a 1,500-page “manifesto” on the internet before launching the bloodbath —\u00a0faces a maximum prison sentence of 21 years.<\/p>\n
The death toll\u00a0now stands at 77\u00a0for the explosion in downtown Oslo and the shootings at a summer camp on Utoya Island.<\/p>\n
Norway has no death penalty. The most that any convicted criminal can be incarcerated is 21 years, Norweigan police confirmed. However, Monday there was speculation that a new law which has not yet taken effect could be used to keep him in prison for 30 years. Also at the end of whatever term he receives, officials said a loophole in Norweigan law could be used to declare him a danger to society — and keep him incarcerated for another full term.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Norweigan police continue to refer to the suspect as a “Christian” although in his Internet posts, he has expressed his disgust at the modern church.\u00a0Apparently he was baptized into\u00a0an unspecified\u00a0Protestant church in Norway\u00a0by “his own free will,” but\u00a0had grown disenchanted with the group and said Protestants should be forced to return to the Catholic church.<\/p>\n