"Lighter sentence for murderer with 'bad genes'"

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The title of this post is the headline of this interesting sentencing story coming from the publication Nature , which reports on these sentencing developments in Italy: An Italian court has cut the sentence given to a convicted murderer by a year because he has genes linked to violent behaviour a ' the first time that behavioural genetics has ...

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