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Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the blame-it-on-genetics dept.

Noiser writes "New Scientist reports: 'In 2007, Abdelmalek Bayout admitted to stabbing and killing a man and received a sentence of 9 years and 2 months. An appeal court judge in Trieste, Italy, cut Bayout's sentence by a year after finding out he has gene variants linked to aggression.'"

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  1. Whoa by mewsenews · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe I wouldn't have lost my job if I could have proven I have a laziness gene.

    1. Re:Whoa by camperdave · · Score: 4, Funny

      I tried doing that once, but it was too hard and I was up late the night before.

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  2. Re:Backwards? by bluesatin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why would you use him as an actor in an amateur remake of Saw?

  3. Re:Where's the... by BarryJacobsen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Controlling our behaviour is one of the things that differentiates us from animals.

    Says who?

    By the way, you may be surprised to learn that humans are animals. We're apes, more specifically.

    Get your logic away from me you damned dirty ape!

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  4. Re:Backwards? by Idiomatick · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that specific to this guy's case or do you treat all your relatives like this? It is hard to tell the way you said it.

  5. Re:Where's the... by soulsteal · · Score: 2, Funny

    We can measure the speed or location of a murder but not both at the same time?

  6. Use the Texas Defense by Virtucon · · Score: 2, Funny

    "He needed killing your honor." - Felon

    "Well, okay, we'll let this pass this time but don't go killin folks who don't need it. Case dismissed!" - Texas Judge

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  7. Re:Backwards? by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 2, Funny

    To protect us from those persons who cannot recognize the validity of this statement: "No man has a right to harm another. And that is all the government should restrain him."

    I'm not sure if that's what you've actually meant, but you basically just said, "everyone who's not a libertarian should be imprisoned".