Word: mcspadden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Texas District Judge Michael McSpadden has a solution for rapists: castrate them. Steven Allen Butler, an accused rapist, had an offer for Judge McSpadden: Castrate me. Last winter, while he was on probation for molesting a seven-year-old girl, Butler was arrested for the rape of a 13-year-old. In October, after McSpadden aired his views on castration in the Houston Post, Butler's attorney proposed a deal. Instead of undergoing a trial in which he faced a plea-bargained 35-year prison sentence, Butler agreed to be surgically castrated if he could go free at once...
...Judge McSpadden had Butler examined by psychiatrists and sex counselors. But members of Butler's family still insist that the defendant was "brainwashed" into volunteering. Last week they hired a lawyer in an attempt to block the surgery. Jesse Jackson, calling the proposal "sick," also visited the accused man in jail, amid reports that Butler himself may be wavering. Without a prisoner's agreement, a Texas appeals court is unlikely to approve a castration. Not so long as the law still holds that no sentence should be written into a prisoner's flesh...