X-Message-Number: 5585
From:  (David L Evens)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: Death penalty
Date: 12 Jan 1996 00:45:27 GMT
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Dave Sill () wrote:
: Just curious...no, I'm contemplating killing anyone...

: What would happen if someone sentenced to death requested
: cryopreservation? What if they were eventually revived? Seems like
: they'd be scott free, their sentence having been carried out. Or would
: the state argue that a death sentence requires a suredeath?

In civilised countries, the practice is that, if the law changes between 
the time of the offense and the time of trial, the least severe form of 
the law is applied.  Since it is unlikely that such ineffective methods 
of crime suppression as capital punishment would still be in use at the 
time of reanimation, it follows that sentence would have to be 
reconsidered, assuming that the legal system of the society into which 
the person was reanimated had continuity with the legal system from which 
the person came.  If not, then the person would have to be considered as 
all the other revived suspendees and would likely be grandfathered in as 
a citizen by default.

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