Anders Behring Breivik, 33, has admitted to detonating the bomb that mangled the government complex in the center of Oslo, killing eight, then driving to the nearby wooded island of Utoya, where he gunned down another 69 people, mostly teenage members of the Labor Party's youth wing. His guilt is not in doubt. Breivik is on trial for his sanity. Whatever the outcome, Norway faces a devilish task in maintaining adherence to its liberal values while ensuring a severity of sentence to articulate a popular demand for justice.
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