LINDH MURDER ARREST

[DuctapeFatwa]

Swedish police have arrested a man suspected of the murder of the country's foreign minister, Anna Lindh.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1104013,00.html

[sujan]

1. good

time to fry the bastard.

[yella_dawg]

2. I don't think Swedes fry people...

That's an American peculiarity.

[IrateCitizen]

4. Nah, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan still do it too. Nice company we're in.

Europeans have evolved past such barbarism as state-sanctioned murder.

[damnraddem]

13. No, they don't fry people --

they dunk them in cheese.

[OldEurope]

19. That´s Switzerland. In Sweden, they get...

...drowned in cream.

:7

[lightbulb]

3. I think murder is illegal in Sweden

Even the state sanctioned kind.

[Evil_Dewers]

5. R U a Democrat...

or a sadist? You call Wesley Clark a war criminal but advocate "frying" a murder SUSPECT.

Perhaps you are a hypocrite, and I care not whether you have 1000+ posts.

[AP]

6. "fry" or "try"??

Let's get to the bottom of this...with a trial.

[salin]

7. sometimes we Americans

demonstrate our americentrism - and forget in the heat of passion - that we are pretty much alone (and singularly alone in developed nations) on the issue of capitol punishment - and the heat of anger - let such expressions rip. :shrug:

[Zero Gravitas]

9. I'm all for capitol punishment

but am against capital punishment.

(sorry couldn't resist, and i'm the worst speller on DU! ;) )

[salin]

14. hehe... but then again - from time to time aren't we all in favor

of a little capitol punishment (bad DeLay! bad Lott!) ;-)

[Evil_Dewers]

10. Gee, that's convenient...

Of course, it would be wrong and (illegal in the US) to want to fry the bastard who ordered the bombings of Afghanistan and Iraq which killed thousands of civilians. Those victims are not better off dead, despite the incessant droning of the neo-con spinmeisters.

But hey, that's America for ya: Hoping that a murder suspect in Sweden (who may have killed one person) is fried yet unable to hope for the same thing to happen to a mass murderer residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue because that would be illegal.

[tainted_chimp]

17. "americentrism"

great term! :hi:

[Brucey]

8. Still wondering about motive.

Story was short... more to come. Sad tale, though, wish we could stop violence. Wars don't help. Besides those killed and hurt in wars themselves, studies show an increase in murder and suicide during periods of warl

[AP]

11. I think the BBC reported yesterday that the murderer left DNA

at the scene (apparently blood was found which dind't match Lindh's).

So, if this goes to trial, and there's good chain of custody of the evidence, and this was true (and not something leaked to get the suspect to do something to reveal identity), and the suspect has cuts, and wasn't set up, there's a good chance that they'll be able to convict the actual murderer.

[roguevalley]

12. good

what a shocking thing to happen.

[TrueStory]

15. Somebody can explain me please

what was the logic behind when they presented
in the media the pictures taken by the security
cameras? These images presented the killer
with blurred face. :eyes:

[AP]

16. They thought it was going to influence witnesses

Witnesses might replace their memories with the images they saw on TV. If the image on TV wasn't the murderer, then any evidence witnesses might have provided would be corrupted and lost.

[TrueStory]

18. Why they need witnesses

if they have the pictures recorded by the security
cameras? (not to mention the blood samples...)

I think in the priority list first should be to catch
the killer and after this cames to provide the evidences.

Some other idea?

[OldEurope]

20. The security cameras didn´t record the murder!

There only were cameras at the exits of the shop. The fotos were published to find the man, whom the eye-witnesses had identified from the films of these cameras to be the assassinator.

[TrueStory]

21. This is a better explanation, but still not OK

Let's start from the beginning.
There were many pictures of different people
leaving the shopping center. The eyewitnesses
picked out the picture of a certain person -
the supposed killer. Later on this picture
was published by the media with blurred face,
because an image with clear face would influence
the eyewitnesses??? But those eye witnesses already
made their choice from pictures with clear face...

I'm not sure how is this done in reality...
but in American movies it's very common, when
criminals are running, they just switch on the TV,
and they can see their own photos - clear, face
easily recognizable. I've never saw a film where
police tried to catch the criminals publishing
blurred face images to not influence the eyewitnesses.

Some more ideas?