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Why add the physical castration part to plea if it doesn’t take effect until he’s 100, seems so pointless.
The American legal system is so barbarically fucked up.
Maybe to have it as a required part of his sentence, so while time can be reduced, perhaps the castration can't? I.e. he couldn't be released early unless he went through with the castration.
I dunno, I'm not a lawyer, just my guess. Fucked up either way on all sides of this.
That's not what the article says...
It says he still has to go through with chemical castration regardless of his plea making him do physical castration as well.
I suspect it's a legal strategy he concocted with his lawyers: Chemical castration might have a different time period in which it is applied (because longer duration), maybe even starting right after the sentence becomes effective. As the summary here states, the physical version that he opted for himself(!) is not to be applied until a week before the sentence ends, which gives him a chance of a lot of things to happen before, laws to change etc & eventually get out of this without being castrated at all.
I think it’s like those 300 year sentences that come out once in a while. Ultimately it’s symbolic.