Re: Wesley A. Dodd

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From: Walter Bright
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 18:07

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In article <6JAN199315114558@oregon.uoregon.edu> dreitman@oregon.uoregon.edu (Daniel R. Reitman, Attorney to Be) writes:
/That may be so, but I think that one opportunity that is missed in the exercise
/of capital punishment is to learn how to prevent other Dodds from appearing.

There are as many theories on why there are serial killers as there are serial
killers. The one common thread they have is that there is no common thread.
Human beings are a little too complicated to be individually predictable.

There was an attempt to get Dodd's brain donated to science to look for
abnormalities. This bit of silliness reminded me of the Soviet communists'
attempt to prove that a communists' brain was superior to other brains,
and they saved prominent communist's brains to prove it (including Stalin's).
And you thought "They Saved Hitler's Brain" was an absurd movie...

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From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
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Subject: Re: Wesley A. Dodd
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Date: 8 Jan 93 18:07:58 GMT
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