Defendant Anders Behring Breivik with his lawyer Geir Lippestad , left, during the third day of proceedings in courtroom 250 in the courthouse in Oslo Wednesday April 18, 2012. Confessed mass killer Breivik on Wednesday called Norway’s prison terms “pathetic” and said the death penalty or an acquittal were the “only logical outcomes” for his massacre of 77 people. (AP Photo/ Heiko Junge, Pool)KARL RITTER, Associated Press
OSLO, Norway (AP) – The right-wing fanatic on trial for massacring 77 people in Norway says he wants either freedom or death, calling the country’s prison terms “pathetic” and arguing for the return of capital punishment, which was last used here to execute Nazi collaborators after World War II.
In the third day of his terror trial, Anders Behring Breivik was grilled by prosecutors about the anti-Muslim militant group he claims to belong to.
He rejected their suggestions that the “Knights Templar” doesn’t exist, but admitted he had embellished when describing the network in a 1,500-page manifesto he published online before the bomb-and-shooting rampage on July 22.
“In principle it is not an organization in a conventional sense,” he said, describing it as a leaderless network consisting of “independent cells.”