Should serial killers be kept alive for research?

[Texashiker]

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Not research as in inhumane treatment, but research like genetics, interviews, brain scans,,, and the such?

With advances in technology what could we learn from people like John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer?

What makes someone rape, kill and eat another person just for the fun of it?

 

[Jaskalas]

Kept alive, as opposed to the decades spent on death row? Plenty of time to do research.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Creepy title is creepy.

Criminals are studied all the time, but punishment is tied to a concept of justice and should remain so. If they live they will be studied, but people aren't lab rats even serial killers. Once you cross that line and make a philosophical distinction it's just a matter of moving bar lower to apply to others and that's happened too many times.

 

[Anarchist420]

Not research as in inhumane treatment, but research like genetics, interviews, brain scans,,, and the such? With advances in technology what could we learn from people like John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer? What makes someone rape, kill and eat another person just for the fun of it?

Genetics could be analyzed after their dead.

 

[Texashiker]

Kept alive, as opposed to the decades spent on death row? Plenty of time to do research.

Take John Wayne Gacy, genetics has come a long way since he was executed.

Interview skills by the FBI has come a long way.

 

[shabby]

Yes their brains should be kept alive ala robocop 2

 

[Oldgamer]

<serious discussion>

Not research as in inhumane treatment, but research like genetics, interviews, brain scans,,, and the such?

With advances in technology what could we learn from people like John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer?

What makes someone rape, kill and eat another person just for the fun of it?

Serial killers have been studied. In fact most of them have been found to have some form of serious mental health issue that was untreated. J.W Gacy had schizophrenia and had hallucinations and paranoid delusions.

Jeffrey Dahmer had a sexual disorder and suffered from parphilia/necrophilia which is classified as a DSM-III-R.

In most cases though people with mental illnesses are harmless. It is just that these cases get highly publicized and so people start to think everyone with a mental illness is a potential killer.

I think if there is to be any studying done it should be possible trials with medications to see what works best for them and then they can apply their findings to people in the US that would benefit them.

 

[Moonbeam]

I do not believe that serial killers are actually human. I think they are incapable of feeling empathy. It would, in my opinion, be very worthwhile studying such folk to determine if this is so and why. The warrior gene has already been identified.

 

[IGBT]

they should be serially slow choked to death with a ty wrap.

 

[Spungo]

Of course they should be studied. If we keep things like smallpox and ebola around for the sake of research, why not serial killers?

 

[pcgeek11]

they should be serially slow choked to death with a ty wrap.

This works for me. Smokem if you got em.

 

[Jaskalas]

Take John Wayne Gacy, genetics has come a long way since he was executed.

Interview skills by the FBI has come a long way.

I could always say there's more where that came from.

You'll not run out of test... subjects...