Poll: Moral Dilemma...

[XHolySmokesX]

With your highly advanced brain scanner, find out why it happened and if it could happen again.

if so convince him to agree to have a chip implanted in him that if he gets into the murderous state again that it will send him neurological messages of tiredness and make him go home and sleep it off.

nothing could possibly ever go wrong with that =P

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Memory doesn't alter the crime nor does it count for an insanity plea. A conviction is the only logical solution.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Charge him. it doesnt matter, he committed the crime, and you have proof. Thats it shouldnt matter if he remembers or not.

 

[MorgulMan]

Clearly, charge him. He is the person who committed the murder. The same personality, the same capabilities and drives and will. He is therefore due punishment for his (unremembered) actions, and society is due protection from an individual who has proven himself capable of murder.

Doesn't mean he has to get the book thrown at him, but he's not off the hook by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[Stasisesque]

Hey guys, just had a question me and a friend were arguing about:

A man commits murder without a doubt, but he has no memory of the attack, the person he attacked, or any motive behind the attack. A brain scan confirms he has (convenient, Soap Opera-esque) amnesia and will never remember what happened.

My question is should you convict him of the crime he doesn't remember doing?

Convict or charge? Poll says charge, you say convict.

He'd still be charged with murder, it's then up to the jury whether or not he's convicted or lessened to manslaughter etc. There's no moral dilemma here at all.

There's precedent for amnesia claims, anyhow. Generally the accused is still charged with premeditated murder, but once in a blue moon they will get off scott free. There was a fairly similar case here a few years ago in which murder was committed during a medically proven sleepwalking episode. The accused got off with manslaughter.

 

[Kinguendo]

Unless his mind was completely wiped to the degree where he wasnt even the same person anymore then yeah, he should be punished. He had the mens rea and the actus rea at the time of the murder so yeah, he should be punished... however, what lesson will be learned by someone who doesnt even remember is probably up for debate.