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To: cardinal4
Both Kansas and Washington State have civil confinement, although Im not sure if either state has faced the Supreme Court yet.

Can civil confinement be ordered for someone who committed no crime, but might have a genetic predisposition to crime?

Look, this "we should keep them, alive to study them" argument has been used by opponents of the death penalty. It is not very convincing.

However, you did say that murderers should be studied on death row; apparently you are not an opponent of the death penalty. So I will meet you half way: We should study the "hard wiring" of murderers -- as part of an autopsy.

72 posted on 11/02/2006 1:03:06 PM PST by Logophile
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To: Logophile
So I will meet you half way: We should study the "hard wiring" of murderers -- as part of an autopsy.

LOL! Fair enough..

75 posted on 11/02/2006 1:07:04 PM PST by cardinal4 (Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi..)
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To: Logophile

"Look, this "we should keep them, alive to study them" argument has been used by opponents of the death penalty. It is not very convincing."

And has yet to happen. So far, the only thing that has happened when they are kept alive is so they can draw pretty little pictures and watch TV in their cells while writing letters to psycho women who want to have their babies.


78 posted on 11/02/2006 1:15:07 PM PST by Southerngl
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