/sci/ - Science & Math

If this was allowed, there could be a new alternative to using animals for science that require the use of a human to be performed correctly. While such a concept may fall afoul of the 8th amendment, instead this could be available as an alternate method of execution, being that the experiment has a possibility that the human involved will die and that the human is aware of the risks.

So instead of an option between lethal injection, gas chamber or electrocution, an inmate could pick scientific experimentation, his choice being a great benefit to mankind in the long run, relying that the inmate agrees and would be happy to contribute in this area.

The 8th amendment rules that "no cruel and unusual punishments are to be inflicted. While military experiments and similar stuff may potentially count as cruel (as they could purposefully inflict pain or fear), medical ones, such as drug tests, do not necessarily have to be cruel as everything depends on the drug reacting in a specific, controlled manner. Plus, a team of medical professionals would be around at all times helping relieve pain and calm the inmate if anything goes wrong.

After a successful experiment resulting in an inmate surviving, he will be executed in another way of his choice, being that the inmate was failed to be executed by the experiment itself.

Now if this system were to be put into place, what do you think it should be like? Should this be a one-time only system where you if you wanted, you could have a chance at delaying your death for a only a little while by picking the "experiment" option? Or could this be a repeating system where you can consent to dangerous experiments again and again, allowing for the system to be potentially abused (the inmate is not actually being executed)? If the latter, should the inmate eventually be used in experiments that are mostly expected to fail, or would this be inhumane?