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Sentencing a criminal to 1,000 years in an artificial hell may one day become a reality.
According to their research, prison firms could also develop drugs that make time pass slowly, making an inmate’s sentence feel like an eternity.
Last year, a team of scientists led by Rebecca Roache began exploring technologies that could keep prisoners in an artificial hell.
Turning to human engineering as a possible solutions, Dr Roache looks at the idea of life span enhancements so that a life sentence in prison could last hundreds of years.
‘The benefits of such radical lifespan enhancement are obvious - but it could also be harnessed to increase the severity of punishments’ As well as extending life, Dr Roache noted that there are a number of psychoactive drugs that distort people’s sense of time.
She said that society might not be far off developing a pill that could make someone feel like they were serving a 1,000-year sentence.
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and who picks up the tab for all this extra years the taxpayer $30.000 per year x forever
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some people get sent to jail because they enjoy it they have better lives than they do on the outside
To me life without parole is a far better and effective punishment than lethal injection.
Bassago
Effective maybe but we don't torture rabid dogs we just put them down. !000 years of torture demeans us as a species, is that what you really want?
Is this a technology that allows you to live 1000 years or does it make 1 year feel like 1000?
jude11
Keeping anyone under lock and key indefinitely is a form of torture (Just ask you know who) and then as a society we would be meting out torture instead of punishment?
Yup, that's how we advance as a species...
Peace
crazyewok
jude11
Keeping anyone under lock and key indefinitely is a form of torture (Just ask you know who) and then as a society we would be meting out torture instead of punishment?
Yup, that's how we advance as a species...
Peace
Pedophiles and sociopaths (most serial killers) cant be rehabilitated! Repeated offending for these scum are almost a garentee!
And they have destroyed lives. Not just the lives of there victims but the lives of there victim family!
Sorry but what you suggest releasing them to offend again and destroy anothers life?
Capital punishment has been shown to be unreliable and costly of innocent lives of wrongly convicted.
You have:
A) "life" but possibility of parole and re offending
B) Life without parole
C) Capital punishment at the cost of wrongly convicted every now and then.