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With different models of trying to deal with punishment once we understand people have wrong selections. I think those are all interesting questions, but is there free will . Well, the fact that almost everybody in the audience raised either their right or left hand contemplated it and were quickly able to act and respond. That to me says, yes, there is. Now what do we want to do about it . Now that we understand that those of us in the audience or up here that like chocolate cake may not have control over it, how do we want to account for that if at all in the criminal Justice System . To dat...

Of incarceration and come up with different models of trying to deal with punishment once we understand people have wrong selections. I think those are all interesting questions, but is there free will . Well, the fact that almost everybody in the audience raised either their right or left hand contemplated it and were quickly able to act and respond. That to me says, yes, there is. Now what do we want to do about it . Now that we understand that those of us in the audience or up here that like chocolate cake may not have control over it, how do we want to account for that if at all in the cri...

Conduct based on what we would expect of a person who has that type of brain structure who had these types of environmental factors and then start to think about how we want to treat them. Do we want to hold those people responsible for their actions or less responsible for their actions. Are there certain people who would be better subject to medical treatment instead of incarceration. Are there certainly people who we actually think would be better off in prison than not being in prison . Those types of decisions, i think, are going to be much more useful coming out of the neuroscience in th...

Colombia tightest president ial election in years. Two death row prisoners are set to be executed. In tonights week ahead, we look at the controversy over the Death Penalty. Good to have you with us. We begin in iraq where the government has vowed to crush sunni rebels. Rebel fighters from isil have taken over several towns in an uprising against the Prime Minister, no uri al maliki. The army is fighting back. This footage shows aerial strikes against the positions north of baghdad. The government has reinforced security across the capitol. Today, car bombs killed at least 15 people. Rebel fig...

Afternoon, were here to hear from mr. Chris fabricant. Who is the director of strategic litigation for the Innocence Project and one of the nations leading experts on Forensic Sciences and the criminal Justice System. Mr. Fabricants book junk science and the american criminal Justice System chronicles the prosecution of individuals who were found guilty of capital murder. And the fight to overturn those Wrongful Convictions he weaves together the courtroom battles from mississippi to texas to new york. And beyond and mr. Fabricant takes the reader on a journey into the heart of a broken racist...