Missouri Rep. introduces castration bill
Missouri State Rep. Scott Cupps (District 158) has filed a bill for the current legislative session that would allow courts to sentence ‘certain sex offenders’ to be surgically castrated.
The McDonald and Barry County Representative’s bill says, if passed, the procedure would be done by a licensed physician from the Department of Corrections.
As of now, the bill, HB 1687, is not scheduled for any committees or on the House calendar but was pre-filed on December 1, 2025.
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The same legislator – Representative Scott Cupps, District 158 – also introduced a bill this session in Missouri to make most sex offenses punishable by either life imprisonment or death. He doesn’t seem to understand that a likely consequence of such a law is that the number of child sex abuse victims who are also murdered by the perpetrator would sharply increase (a point made by the United States Supreme Court in Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407, 2008). In his majority opinion, Justice Kennedy (no relation to the petitioner) explained that allowing the death penalty for non-homicide sex offenses makes children less safe, not safer. I suppose Rep. Cupps believe that he knows better that the United States Supreme Court.
Looking for political cred for election season of course and probably knows this won’t past legal muster.
It has been proven that castration does nothing to stop someone from offending. Urges are not based on physical only but also in your mind. You could still offend regardless of being castrated. And as far as I know, castration is permanent so that would be a lifetime punishment as well.
The state of Misery just continues to roll in its name happily…
Since when does our Constitution allow mutilation as a punishment? In truth that is what they propose is it not. The safeguards against Cruel and Unusual Punishment were put in place to stop this exact type of torture from being allowed in the United States.
PFRs are already branded as less than human in the “land of the free” (I guess similar in other countries), so it’s not hard for legislators to propose these “tough on crime” bills.
It gets harder to brand pfr’s as less than human, the more pfr’s show up and speak out.