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Norwegian prosecutors asked a trial court here on Thursday to order Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted killing 77 people, confined for compulsory psychiatric treatment instead of sentencing him to prison.
Almost 10 weeks of testimony in the trial of Mr. Breivik, 33, showed that he was psychotic at the time of the killings last July, the prosecutors argued. And while there is some doubt about whether he is legally sane now, that doubt requires that he be hospitalized rather than imprisoned, they said.
"In our opinion, it is worse that a psychotic person is sentenced to preventative detention than a nonpsychotic person is sentenced to compulsory mental health care," Svein Holden, one of the prosecutors, told the court.