There's already a lawsuit in the works.
https://www.cbs42.com/top-stories/alabama-considers-chemical-castration/2050636492
Alabama considers chemical castration for child molesters
By: Cory McGinnis
Posted: Jun 03, 2019 11:21 PM CDT
Updated: Jun 04, 2019 01:54 PM CDT
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An Alabama lawmaker has a plan to permanently and physically punish someone convicted of certain sex offenses against children.
The bill, known as HB 379, would make those sex offenders have to undergo chemical castration before they leave prison.
HB 379 was introduced by State Representative Steve Hurst, R-Calhoun County.
He said the bill will be for sex offenders over the age of 21 that committed sex offenses against children. "They have marked this child for life and the punishment should fit the crime," said Hurst.
This is not Hurst's first time introducing the bill.
"I had people call me in the past when I introduced it and said don't you think this is inhumane? I asked them what's more inhumane than when you take a little infant child, and you sexually molest that infant child when the child cannot defend themselves or get away, and they have to go through all the things they have to go through. If you want to talk about inhumane--that's inhumane," said Hurst.
Hurst is hoping this would make sex offenders think twice.
"If we do something of this nature it would deter something like this happening again in Alabama and maybe reduce the numbers," said Hurst.
Attorney Raymond Johnson says, "There going to challenge it under the 8th Amendment Constitution. There going to claim that it is cruel and unusual punishment for someone who has served there time and for the rest of there life have to be castrated."
Johnson says child molestation is a serious offense and already has serious consequences such as time served in prison followed with probation or parole.
The bill is now on Governor Kay Ivey's desk for signature.
https://legiscan.com/AL/text/HB379/id/1987931
SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, certain criminal
9 offenses are classified as sex offenses. A
10 conviction for a sex offense against a person under
11 the age of 12 years is a sex offense involving a
12 child.
13 Under existing law, a person convicted of a
14 sex offense involving a child which constitutes a
15 Class A or B felony is not eligible for parole.
16 This bill would provide that a person
17 convicted of a sex offense involving a person under
18 the age of 13 years who is eligible for parole, as
19 a condition of parole, shall be required to undergo
20 chemical castration treatment in addition to any
21 other penalty or condition prescribed by law.
22 This bill would require the Department of
23 Public Health to administer any treatment given.
24 This bill would require the parolee to pay
25 for the cost of the treatment; provided, the bill
26 would prohibit a person from being denied parole
27 because of indigency.
1 This bill would also provide that if a
2 person is ordered to undergo chemical castration
3 treatment as a condition of parole and the person
4 refuses to undergo the treatment, his or her
5 refusal would constitute a violation of parole and
6 would result in the person being remanded to the
7 custody of the Department of Corrections.
