Murdered in Norway 2000 - 2007

The Norwegian newspaper VG has investigated cases where women in Norway were murdered by their husbands, ex-husbands, boyfriends, ex-boyfriends
during the years 2000 - 2007.

72 women were murdered by those they at some point shared bed and life with.
4 men were murdered by their female partners during that same period.

37 % of the men used knives as the murder weapon.
28 % shot their female partners.
17 % strangled the women.

In my head, a couple who does not have a reasonably good life together, go separate ways.

For these 72 men, at least, their heads worked differently.
In one third of the cases, these murderers then commited suicide.
Before that, some of them had also murdered their own children.

I am not in favor of death penalty.
Murder is in any case a terrible way to solve any problem.

But it would have been of some advantage if these men had taken only one life - their own.