Hard Time: A Look At The Law Inside The Walls

168. Lobotomies for Criminals: Worse Than Death?


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Today we look at Rickey Ray Rector, who killed people. Then, refusing to go to jail, he stove his own brain in with a .38. He survived of course. His lawyer said he was like a 4 year old. Bill Clinton, trying to look tough on crime in 1992, put him death as the governor of Arkansas. Erstwhile in interwar Switzerland, a boy born wrong was beyond control to the shame of his family. Institutionalized from age 8, by the time he was 21 he committed one of the most savage crimes against a child. The answer: a double lobotomy. Is it proper care for the hopelessly deranged? Or just a way to make them more manageable?

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Hard Time: A Look At The Law Inside The WallsBy Jake Welder and Jonathan Bates

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