Fascinating article. Says a huge percentage of the inmates have CTE. Even OJ Simpson has it. Instead of being pathological sociopaths, greedy pieces of shit, lowdown junkies, and psychotic maniacs- they are simply afflicted with this terrible disease. Now the scam the lawyers have used to destroy the NFL is going to be used to take prisoners out of where they belong, behind bars. Who is stupid enough to fall for this shit........oh I forgot, this is BBI. Once again, people knew head trauma caused injuries from boxing over a hundred years ago. Will Smith didn't discover it, nor did that fraud he played in that moronic movie.
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I was knocked cold during an Army Airborne operation when I was about 19. For over a week my head was hazy and I was in a mild vertigo like state. Has it carried over and caused me issues? Maybe.
Feel bad for someone who gets scrambled from a terrible accident not someone who failed to exercise common sense and engaged in a sport or activity which basically revolves around using your head as a point of contact repeatedly.
who did intensive interviews with a large sample of death row inmates. They gave them the full monty -- mir, cat scans, x-rays, medical records from childhood, you name it. And they discovered that almost all of them suffered from some kind of brain injury, either from being dropped as a kid, pounded in the head for some reason or sustaining a number of (I think) frontal lobe disturbances.
I don't think this is a coincidence and points to the sad truth that some people can't control their impulses because of brain injury or brain chemistry.
I had been a big proponent of the death penalty until I read this piece and subsequent stories about D.A.'s making their bones on the afflictions of such people, the tampering of evidence by some police forces or totally inadequate legal representation.
Add to that the burden of serious brain injury and we have a tragic confluence of negative factors that damage the perps and, of course, their victims.
I don't know what one can do about this, but it's a cause worth pursuing.
who did intensive interviews with a large sample of death row inmates. They gave them the full monty -- mir, cat scans, x-rays, medical records from childhood, you name it. And they discovered that almost all of them suffered from some kind of brain injury, either from being dropped as a kid, pounded in the head for some reason or sustaining a number of (I think) frontal lobe disturbances.
I don't think this is a coincidence and points to the sad truth that some people can't control their impulses because of brain injury or brain chemistry.
I had been a big proponent of the death penalty until I read this piece and subsequent stories about D.A.'s making their bones on the afflictions of such people, the tampering of evidence by some police forces or totally inadequate legal representation.
Add to that the burden of serious brain injury and we have a tragic confluence of negative factors that damage the perps and, of course, their victims.
I don't know what one can do about this, but it's a cause worth pursuing.
I don't think this is a coincidence and points to the sad truth that some people can't control their impulses because of brain injury or brain chemistry.
the brain injury part is interesting about its effects to brain chemistry, but brain chemistry itself dictates everything everyone does.
Perhaps it is true, but there is no way to know if current incarcerated criminals have CTE or not.
who did intensive interviews with a large sample of death row inmates. They gave them the full monty -- mir, cat scans, x-rays, medical records from childhood, you name it. And they discovered that almost all of them suffered from some kind of brain injury, either from being dropped as a kid, pounded in the head for some reason or sustaining a number of (I think) frontal lobe disturbances.
I don't think this is a coincidence and points to the sad truth that some people can't control their impulses because of brain injury or brain chemistry.
I had been a big proponent of the death penalty until I read this piece and subsequent stories about D.A.'s making their bones on the afflictions of such people, the tampering of evidence by some police forces or totally inadequate legal representation.
Add to that the burden of serious brain injury and we have a tragic confluence of negative factors that damage the perps and, of course, their victims.
I don't know what one can do about this, but it's a cause worth pursuing.
I agree with most your other points for not exercising the death penalty. I am a big supporter of having the death penalty but rarely ever using it.. However the disease factor doesn't play for me. if the disease is not curable then there is no real reason for someone who has done a heinous crime to live.. I don't think of it as punishment but rather from a society perspective there is no need for someone who cannot participate in a society and cannot be rehabilitated..
Think about this: when someone gets hit hard in the head what do they momentarily see? Yup. Stars. There's your answer.