Julia wrote:
There've been a number of possible explanations put forward. The one I currently favour is that the limiter was still experimental at that stage, and who better to try it out on than condemned prisoners?
Yes, I think he's a guinea pig for the latest technology. And presumably it doesn't work well enough for them to keep him - perhaps they expected to be able to control more than his capacity for physical violence, but he appears to retain his free will. So they announce a wholly successful development in preventing violence, but drop funding for the project and begin to concentrate their efforts on alternatives such as Pylene-50, which have a more dramatic effect on the personality.