Austin Powers did it in International Man of Mystery. Urban myth has Walt Disney doing it. Sperm and eggs do it all the time. Get nitrogen-fast-frozen, that is, in one last egomaniacal effort to preserve body and mind and genes for a future that may or may not want 'em. ("Sorry Walt, you had a lot of talent and all, but we outgrew your pubescent fantasies a couple of hundred centuries ago.") But there is something to be said for sending this society's most pressing moral problem forward to a time when greater minds may have come along. (OK, that's writ small, with tongue planted firmly in cheek.) Still, in some civilization far, far away, the key to reversing murderous tendencies may be found that could turn these killers into peaceful contributors to society. If not, they can just keep on snoozing in suspended animation in their little pods, costing taxpayers no more than the electricity to run the freezer. This could satisfy Texans on both sides of the issue as well as juries who would have the now-denied satisfaction of sending a particularly cold-blooded killler like George Rivas up for ten thousand years.

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