Perhaps cryonics suspension should be a new form of punishment. It sure would save taxpaying public millions of Dollars. Imagine a jury considering a verdict between two alternatives: a death penalty, or a life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Sentencing to cryo instead would be equally severe and it would save taxpayers a lot of tax money. In a single case of a life sentence it would be a saving of several million Dollars. The problem would be that bleeding heart liberals would consider it a cruel punishment and conservatives would consider it a slap on the wrist :-)
It seems like cryonics would count as pr(it works) life imprisonment and pr(it doesn’t) death penalty. That is, it’s ambiguous, and cheaper. I expect that the ‘cheaper’ part will convince taxpayers to support it, convince prison lobbies to fight it, and the ambiguity will let all the politicians support it.
Perhaps cryonics suspension should be a new form of punishment. It sure would save taxpaying public millions of Dollars. Imagine a jury considering a verdict between two alternatives: a death penalty, or a life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Sentencing to cryo instead would be equally severe and it would save taxpayers a lot of tax money. In a single case of a life sentence it would be a saving of several million Dollars. The problem would be that bleeding heart liberals would consider it a cruel punishment and conservatives would consider it a slap on the wrist :-)
It seems like cryonics would count as pr(it works) life imprisonment and pr(it doesn’t) death penalty. That is, it’s ambiguous, and cheaper. I expect that the ‘cheaper’ part will convince taxpayers to support it, convince prison lobbies to fight it, and the ambiguity will let all the politicians support it.