INCURABLY SICK
TO SHORTEN SUFFERINGS
COMMISSION'S IDEA
BERLIN, September 30. i The commission on the now penal code, headed by the Prussian Minister of Justice, Horr Kirri, recommends, that doctors be allowed to shorten the sufferings of the incurably sick by death on the demand of the patient and in the interests of humanity.
It urges the removal of the legal ban on duelling to settle affairs of honour, though recommending that a fatal ending should render tho slayer liable to imprisonment. It also urges server* corporal punishment for brutal crimes, and the wider application of the death sentence. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 80, 2 October 1933, Page 9
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99INCURABLY SICK Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 80, 2 October 1933, Page 9
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