Show SAYS DEFECTIVES SHOULHE KILLED Physician Asserts Hopeless Criminals and Lunatics Are Menace NEW lORK Dec. 27 Mentally de fecti e criminals and incurabis insane persons should be put to death by the state The world would be much better off if it were not for these unfortunate Indi Iduals and xoclety in self defense should provide for the r lecal extermina tlon These are the leading po nts in the start ing paper contr buted by Dr Edward Wallace Lee of tins city to the current ssue of the New York Medical Journal In 1 s paper Dr Lee blames ntoxlcants bad hab ts drues and n a aria for causing a large percentage of crime The paper continues The inmates of our penal inst tu t ons n ay be rough y d ided nto three c asses T ose wno should not be there at a 1 and shou d ne er have been conf ned t ose who should be treated with the hope of cure and those who should be e adicated In the f rst c ass we have those who a e sent to prison arge y through techn cal es and do pot be ong n penal Instltut ons The second class is composed of those who under proper treatment env ronn ent and educat on may be benef ted and tra ned In the th d class I inc ude a 1 hose menta moral and p s ca defectives suffer Ing from ata s ra ts whom o manner of t ea ment or punishn ent w benefit In the s ghtest degree For the sake of hunanity and pos te ty I be eve h s last c ass shou d be eradicated If the rig t to pass upon the 1 fe of a r m nal Is to be g ven to a lud clal body is it not con s stent to ask that a p operls const tuted nat ona board of health be vested w th s ml a rights in regard to the a so utely nsuraple? |