Dilemma story: To reveal or not! - 05/24

The prisoner's dilemma is a paradox in decision analysis in which two individuals acting in their own self-interests do not produce the optimal outcome.

There is one more aspect added to Prisoner's dilemma after "Haysom" double murder in Virginia alleged by Elizabeth Haysom and her boyfriend, Jens Söring. On the morning of April 3, 1985, the bodies of Derek and Nancy Haysom were discovered. 

In 1987, Elizabeth Haysom pleaded guilty to two counts of accessory to murder before the fact and was sentenced to 90 years in prison. Jens Söring pleaded not guilty, but was found guilty at his 1990 trial and sentenced to two consecutive life terms for first-degree murder. 

1. If both had remained silent, there was no evidence with police and both would have been freed

2. If one would have turned government witness, the other would have got electric chair.

3. If both would have confessed to the crime, they would have got lesser punishment. 

4. However, both put the blame on other for the murder and both got the same sentence as committing the crime individually.

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