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37 Law & Psychol. Rev. 1 (2013)
Empathy for Psychopaths: Using fMRI Brain Scans to Plea for Leniency in Death Penalty Cases

handle is hein.journals/lpsyr37 and id is 9 raw text is: EMPATHY FOR PSYCHOPATHS: USING fMRI BRAIN SCANS TO PLEA FOR LENIENCY IN DEATH PENALTY CASES Kimberly D. Phillips* ABSTRACT Most of the public agrees that society is safer without psychopaths. However, a new sentencing strategy for psychopaths facing the death penalty has erupted from both mental health researchers and defense lawyers-imploring juries to view a defendant's psychopathy as a consideration of sentencing mitigation, and, consequently, urging juries to impose life imprisonment instead of the death penalty. This article explains the frightening nature of psychopaths, how neuroscience and neuroimaging intersects with the study of psychopathy, and, specifically, whether an fiMRI brain scan is appropriate mitigating evidence in death penalty sentencing hearings when the convicted defendant is a diagnosed psychopath.

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