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Supreme Court Considers Oklahoma Punitive Sterilization Issue
The U.S. Supreme Court reversed in June, 1942, an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling upholding punitive sterilization of a state prisoner. Petitioner Skinner was convicted in 1926 of the crime of stealing chickens and sent to prison. In 1929 and 1934 he was convicted of robbery with a firearm; the three ...
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