Brian D Williams wrote:
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> As a death penalty advocate, I would be against any attempt to
> cryonically suspend anyone to whom the death penalty has been
> administered.
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> The death penalty should be "final death" as covered in Jim
> Halperins "The first Immortal".
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> Since it is final, it should only be administered when there is
> little or no doubt.
However, referencing Niven's _Patchwork Girl_ (one of his Gil the ARM novels),
putting someone convicted of a death penalty offense into cryonic storage while
undergoing the often decades long appeals process would minimize the cost of
keeping death row prisoners, while allowing a full appeals process to continue,
and the chance to be revived if the conviction is overturned.
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