X-Message-Number: 5585 From: (David L Evens) Newsgroups: sci.cryonics Subject: Re: Death penalty Date: 12 Jan 1996 00:45:27 GMT Message-ID: <4d4av7$> References: <> 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. -- ---------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Ring around the neutron, | "OK, so he's not terribly fearsome. A pocket full of positrons,| But he certainly took us by surprise!" A fission, a fusion, +-------------------------------------------------- We all fall down! | "Was anybody in the Maqui working for me?" ---------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- "I'd cut down ever Law in England to get at the Devil!" "And what man could stand up in the wind that would blow once you'd cut down all the laws?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ e-mail will be posted as I see fit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5585