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Louisiana man sentenced to 50 years in prison, physical castration for raping teen
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What does physical or chemical castration even mean? And why is this a punishment when he is 100 years old?
Also, under current law there, no abortions are allowed unless life of mother is at risk, so they will castrate the rapist but force the mother to give birth?
What the actual fuck
Chemical castration is the lowering of hormones medically. Physical castration would by physical removal of the testes.
Welcome back to the dark ages. See you at next week's drawing and quartering. It's right after the hangings! Hopefully we get some real kickers!
Lowering hormones medically? Sounds like something Trans, and that's illegal in the south.
I think it would only be illegal for minors.
Yee haw! What the fuck lol, if I was a hundred years old cutting off my balls would be kind of sexy lol,
Who likes lemons?
Who likes parties?
How dare you
Physical castration is being neutered, aka what we routinely due to male animals we don't intend to breed.
Chemical castration is essentially being chemically neutered - hormone blockers. Whenever you see someone anti-trans talk about pro-trans people wanting to chemically castrate children that's why - it's the same drugs being used to achieve the same effect - blocking sex hormones.
Because castration in LA is only performed in the final week of the prison sentence (presumably because it can't be reversed so as to allow time for appeals), he was in his 50s when convicted and was sentenced to 50 years + castration. So by the time he's in the final week of his prison sentence he would be over 100 should he live that long.
Damn. I wouldn't be surprised if someone just went on a rampage after being released because the government cut their balls off.
It's insane there are people in this thread cheering them on, but I don't expect much rationality or maturity from this generation at this point.
Well, it's because he's an old fuck already so his heinous crimes result in him spending the rest of his worthless life in prison. If he's lucky, he'll die before he reaches 100.
I disagree with the idea behind that punishment…. But I hear you
Child rapists really test my principles regarding the death penalty and such, not going to lie.
But that's the whole point of a fair justice system. It doesn't respond to people's personal feelings or emotional arguments. It is based on concepts like cruel punishments should not be meted out regardless of the circumstances.
Should the justice system be about vengeance? I don't think it should. I don't think an atrocious crime deserves an atrocious governmental response.
Definitely, our system of justice is really fucked up.
Louisiana is 100% the worst of the 50-nifty united states.
physical castration is removing his ~~dick~~balls.
chemical castration ... is basically using medication to block hormones that cause sex drives. (edit for technical accuracy as was pointed out below. Either way they're taking medically-approved bolt cutters to his junk. and that's never right at any age.)
The fun part is that it doesn't even do that. You can block all of your testosterone (as an XY male), and still desire sex, have erections, and achieve orgasms. It's difficult, but still possible. And unless they're going to do blood panels every month, it's pretty easy to get around that shit, if you have the money for the black market drugs.
At 100 years old?
Not defending or saying it's right. It's far from it.
but that's what they mean by physical and chemical castration
They're not removing the dick they're removing the testicle.
Apparently castration means a few things. In China the eunuchs were castrated and they typically had both penis and testicles removed.
Just learned that yesterday and kinda wish I didn't.
I hear you, thanks I didn’t even realize that could be an actual punishment , especially in a state like Louisiana that doesn’t allow abortion in cases of rape
At 5gat age just smack them with a baton and they will crumble into dust