Anders Eklund, the murderer of both 10 years old girl Engla Juncosa and the 31 years old Pernilla Hellgren, is not crazy at all, according to specialists at the National Board of Health and Welfare in Sweden (Socialstyrelsen).
Anders Eklund risks now to be locked up for life. In September 2007, 160 prisoners were currently serving life, 5 of whom are women. The oldest life prisoner is 79 years old and the youngest 23 years old, according to the Swedish Prison and Probation Service (kriminalvården).
In the Swedish prison system, it is the actual deprivation of liberty and not the prison operations that make up the punishment. Instead, the time in prison should be used to reduce the risk of reoffending by creating opportunities for the prisoner to abstain from a criminal life once out of prison.
The question is how an evil man like Anders Eklund can be helped? What kind of opportunities the prison system can offer to such a slaughterer? Will he ever become a better human being? I hope so, even if I strongly doubt it… What I really hope the most is that the victims of his horrible crimes, meaning the parents and relatives of Engla and Pernilla, someday get enough peace in their hurted souls.
How evil can a man be?
1 07 2008Anders Eklund, the murderer of both 10 years old girl Engla Juncosa and the 31 years old Pernilla Hellgren, is not crazy at all, according to specialists at the National Board of Health and Welfare in Sweden (Socialstyrelsen).
Anders Eklund risks now to be locked up for life. In September 2007, 160 prisoners were currently serving life, 5 of whom are women. The oldest life prisoner is 79 years old and the youngest 23 years old, according to the Swedish Prison and Probation Service (kriminalvården).
In the Swedish prison system, it is the actual deprivation of liberty and not the prison operations that make up the punishment. Instead, the time in prison should be used to reduce the risk of reoffending by creating opportunities for the prisoner to abstain from a criminal life once out of prison.
The question is how an evil man like Anders Eklund can be helped? What kind of opportunities the prison system can offer to such a slaughterer? Will he ever become a better human being? I hope so, even if I strongly doubt it… What I really hope the most is that the victims of his horrible crimes, meaning the parents and relatives of Engla and Pernilla, someday get enough peace in their hurted souls.
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