"On 22 July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people at a government building and left-wing youth camp near Oslo in Norway. ..... An initial psychiatric panel diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia. "After the results of the first evaluation were announced, the killer, as well as many of his victims and their families, cried foul..... 56 of the victims and their families complained that if Breivik were declared insane, it would mean that he was not responsible for his crimes..... In that moment, right and left converged on the claim that applying the insanity label would amount to a miscarriage of justice. Both sides were satisfied when a second evaluation declared him sane." aeonmagazine/world-views/holly-case-thomas-szasz-insanity-plea/
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