Life on psych ward is worse than death, says Breivik

Anders Behring Breivik, who is set to go on trial on Apr 16 for killing 77 people in Norway last July, wrote 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 newspaper published extracts.

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