
"This
is no joke," declared Mayor Keith Holliday after a city council meeting in
Greensboro, North Carolina had ended in chaos. "I was just trying to think
outside the box. And if cryogenic freezing was good enough for Walt Disney, then
it's certainly good enough for some bunch of murderers on Death Row."
Mayor Holliday had proposed his radical solution during a council debate about
the problems of overcrowding in the city's penitentiary. "At present, Death
Row inmates can appeal against execution for year after year, claiming wrongful
conviction and judicial irregularities. That delay causes overcrowding, and
costs us millions in legal fees and prison fees, before we can finally execute
them. So instead of wasting all that money, why don't we put them all on ice? We
could cryogenically freeze them, then reverse the process if later evidence
clears them of their crimes. If it doesn't, then they just stay frozen. I
watched a television talk show about it last night, and we have the technology.
All we need now is Jesus the Lord, fine corn liquor, and the courage to think
the unthinkable." (The Roanoke Times, 7/10/00.)
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