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Politics : Long Live The Death Penalty! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Fangorn who wrote (409)	1/16/2003 3:14:23 PM
From: louisebaltimore	Respond to of 828

BTW if such a system did work how long would you keep a murderer frozen? 30 years? 100 years? in perpetuity? To a revived thug it would probably seem like he just went to sleep yesterday, is this punishment? If you never revive him how would that differ from execution? Good question. The murderer would only be revived if he were later found to be not guilty. And, yes, he would get his "life" back as if it were yesterday ... kind of. That's the least we can do in such a case, isn't it? Freezing would indeed be punishment for the guilty as it's just a final as death from their point of view and therefore just as good a deterrent as the DP. How long they would be allowed to exist would depend on their age at the time and what life expectancy rates are. As an added benefit, perhaps when their time is up, medical science can make use of them. Look, I know SA is a ways off, but when Kennedy said we would put a man on the moon in 10 years, that looked about as doubtful. The benefits to science and medicine alone are worth it. In the meantime?? Hmmmmm. Well, there are a lot of comatose people out there. Maybe we can learn something from them. ;-)