Alternatives to the Death Sentence?

I have thought of just one more practical problem with freezing lifers (I will stop then, Whitewave !)

How would a "cure" be found for the personality/psychological traits that have caused those prisoners to be sentenced to life imprisonment (or to being killed and frozen) if all the examples who could be studied (or experimented on, if you prefer that terminology) are locked away unconscious or worse in freezers, and unavailable, waiting for researchers to produce a cure out of a hat?

Well if we were in Germany in the 30's and 40's a jolly good wheeze would be to screw into the brain and see what we found, omitting any form of pain relief of course.

This conversation is insane!

Exactly!

Is it possible to study behavioural abnormalities when your subjects have stopped behaving at all, either well or badly?

Are you dressed yet Elegran?

Wonder what we would find if we looked into the heads of some GNers?

Not only dressed but have been out gardening, Jane.

Galen If you looked in at one ear, you would see out of the other, if it weren't for the feathers floating round inside.

(Disclaimer - No, that was NOT a dig at the OP or at anyone else specific!

Shouldn't you have sent the lifers to the Isle of Man to grow their strawberries, Elegran?

Are there strawberry fields on the Isle of Man too? I knew about the IoW ones because my son-in-law was surrounded by so many of them there in his childhood that he can't eat them now.

Ask Hollydaze. That's where she lives!

If we are still in the realm of la-la land, maybe the idea of transportation could be resurrected only this time to some distant planet- can't be any dafter than cryogenics !

Perhaps with a detachment of cryogenic researchers to work on the unfinished details of that, with a view to using it once it is perfected?

I'd quite like this thread to be cryogenically frozen

Until a cure for it has been discovered . . .

Elegran

I have only just read this thread, and I am not sure which posts are worse: the dismissive ones , or the patronising ones.
I read a book called A Rusty Gun which was about a prison which seemed to be able to successfully change the behaviour of some violent prisoners through therapy . I suppose it's all down to cost ,if suitable candidates are found.

Getting a bit crowded in the naughty corner now

Soutra - - which are we or are we both?

I'm with you!

Wow , just wow! As a result of being on this thread, I have just solved 18 across in today's Guardian crossword. I am deeply grateful to HD