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I dont know how many of you will remember this case I dont even remember what state it was in. A long time ago I remember hearing about a Judge who gave out a sentence to 2 men who Raped an 80 year old women. the Judge gave the 2 men a choice, if I remember right it was between life in prison or chemical castration. The men chose chemical castration and the Judge ended up losing his job for cruel and unusual punishment. They said he violated our 8th amendment.
Chemical "castration" consists of Depo-Provera (progestrogen) injections of the same sort used for female birth control. In males it reduces libido to the point of impotence. If the offender stops taking Depo it wears off, or it can be contradicted with testosterone injections. Some states have approved its use for sex offenders who are on parole or who are repeat offenders.Quote:
Originally Posted by Atrain1
Chopping off some dude’s tally whacker will solve the problem.
Randy
Maybe he did not do the chemical castration cause the whole stink was about the judge being unusually cruel and that it could not be reversed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clint45
That should be the first punishment for Rape, then death.Quote:
Originally Posted by trout_champ
+1 It would solve the problem and there would be no repeat offences!Quote:
Originally Posted by trout_champ
it certainly would send a messageQuote:
Originally Posted by trout_champ
Well, rape is a power thing, there have been cases where chemically castrated offenders reoffend by using phallic objects, they just should never be left out.
I'm going to chime in here, and I don't mean to piss people off with this, but I was stationed in Afghanistan with a guy who found out that his old chum from high school was found guilty of rape. After serving 8 of his 16 year sentence the girl had a change of heart and came clean about the whole thing saying that he dated a friend of hers, she seduced him, then the next day called rape on the whole thing. Since there was plenty of evidence and witness testimony that he had been intimate with her it was open and shut for the DA. Well 8 years later she flips and says it was just a big revenge scheme and she didn't realize until then that she had ruined a guy's life. They released him and cleared his record. But how do you get those 8 years back? You don't. How do you get your twig and berries back if you use that extreme punishment only to find out later the guy is innocent? You don't.
Just my .02 and something to ponder about.
The humanity of a society can be seen from a direct correlation of how it treats its criminals. This has been illrefutabe theology for hundreds of years. I wanna see us swirl the bowl, give the govt leeway to circumvent the 8th and see just how long it is before they're burning witches in town square.
This is all hashed out pretty well in any criminal justice intro class. As much as some of you think this way of thinks is right, its always historically led to implosion of the society in question. Our founding fathers were smart enough to know this. Soft living has made most of us forget.