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Well since the hug-a-thug crowd won't let us execute those who deserve it any more I have an idea how we can have our cake and not kill it too. The chemical MPTP, when injected into a person in sufficent amouts causes a state of total imobility, like total parkinsons disease, or to quote wikipedia "MPTP
(1 methyl 4 phenyl 1,2,3,6 tetrahydropyridine) is a neurotoxin that causes permanent symptoms of Parkinson's disease by killing certain neurons in the substantia nigra of the brain. When injected the prisoner cannot move under their own power, but besides that, are alive and healthy, so when someone is given a "death" sentence, we just shoot them up, store them somewhere (much cheaper then the Club Fed prisions we have now) and if on the off chance the prisoner is found to be not guilty we simply inject them with L-Dopa and they jump back to life, no fuss, no muss, and imagine the money we'll save.
Wikipedia: MPTP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPTP
[jutta, Jun 16 2009]
Wikipedia: L-DOPA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levodopa
[jutta, Jun 16 2009]
NY Times health guide on treating parkinson symptoms with L-DOPA
http://health.nytim...adopa-(l-dopa).html
General background. [jutta, Jun 16 2009]
Good 'ole Barry Kidston
http://www.scq.ubc....parkinsons-disease/
[normzone, Jun 17 2009]
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Widely baked in science fiction. They did this in the movie
'Minority Report', only using a halo-like mechanism instead of
drugs. But the drug method has been done before, too. |
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Sounds like the perfect option for brutal countries like Iran, North Korea, China, and of course the USA, where executions are common place. |
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I'm afraid I'm one of the "bleeding hearts", who comes with a small fish. |
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//won't let us execute those who deserve it// ...right. |
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Don't think you'll get many buns on this one. The "bleeding hearts" will vote against it for the same reasons they oppose capital punishment. The - what's the opposite of bleeding heart? Non-bleeding heart? Stone heart? - anyway, they'll vote against it for the same reasons they support capital punishment. |
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Making sufferers of late-stadium Parkinson's Disease - however it was induced - "jump back to life, no fuss, no muss" with a mere L-DOPA injection is absurd. |
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The disease kills neurons involved with dopamine uptake, it doesn't just deplete the level of dopamine. The L-DOPA, which is converted into dopamine after (and, unfortunately, before) moving into the brain, turns into extra helpings of the stuff that there are fewer receptors for. But that only takes you so far, for a few years, until the side effects and habituation effects catch up with you. |
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// what's the opposite of bleeding heart?// |
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Seems to me that life in an ordinary prison accomplishes the same end as this. Felon never endangers society again, but isn't actually killed. Except if it turns out he is innocent, they just let him out, no messing around with questionable neurosurgery. |
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"Leeches are annelids comprising the subclass Hirudinea" |
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I was expecting "virtual death" to be cutting off someone's internet access for life. |
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One problem with "life in prison" or variants thereof is that there's no guarantee that some future governor won't decide the guy has "suffered enough". |
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But there is no guarantee with this method either. |
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That's why the worst offenders are often given multiple consecutive 100-year sentences with no possibility for parole. I don't think a future governor can override that. Can they...? |
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Hopefully not. But if I had a penny for every time a civil servant completely ignored the rules I'd be a rich man. |
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[Hirudinea] has much faith is the efficacy of the legal system. |
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