Oklahoma's Habitual Criminal Sterilization Act Of 1935

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Oklahoma 's Habitual Criminal Sterilization Act of 1935, the state of Oklahoma could make a criminal go through a process of sterilization for a certain type of crimes believing that in the ideology of eugenics that certain behaviors could be passed down through family lines. In Skinner v. State of Oklahoma, ex. rel. Williamson, Jack T. Skinner after committing the crimes of stealing chickens and armed robbery, and in which Skinner had committed armed robbery twice. Had found him in the spot of getting sterilized. A machination that was a part of Oklahoma law and would be triggered if the felon turned out to be a repeat offender of a certain variety,” A statute of Oklahoma provides for the sterilization, by vasectomy or salpingectomy, of "habitual