Pakistan: Standing committee approves chemical castration of sexual abusers

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[thecurrent.pk – 6/5/21]

National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Law and Justice has approved chemical castration, which falls in the Criminal Law bill.

As per the Criminal Law Bill 2020, if the accused commits the crime again after serving a life sentence, he will be sentenced to chemical castration.

Under this law, special court, anti-rape crises cell, and special committee would be set up to hear rape cases and registered complaints.

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Regarding chemical castration, Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) Nafisa Shah said it is inhuman under the law. The law for awarding death punishment and life imprisonment to rapists already exist, she added.

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Savages. Somebody needs to make sure these animals don’t have continued access to nuclear weapons.

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California was cutting edge.

The Most Critical Option

For in 1938 L. N. Turrentine began offering the option of voluntary castration coupled with long terms of probation to men convicted of sex offenses.3 The vast majority of those men who took advantage of the program were convicted under Section 288 of the California Penal Code* and the alternative to castration for them was clearly a long prison sentence.

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