Judges in Louisiana could be given the power to order surgical castration for sex offenders who prey on young children after the state legislature passed a first-in-the-nation law on Monday. The law ...

Some sex offenders in Louisiana could soon be ordered to undergo surgical castration if convicted of sex crimes as part of an expansion of a bill proposed earlier this year. Louisiana lawmakers gave ...

Louisiana is now the first state to allow surgical castration to be used as a punishment for sex crimes under a new law signed by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry. This law, which will go into effect Aug.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last year, Louisiana passed a law that permits judges to sentence individuals convicted of specific crimes to surgical castration.

An aspiring surgeon performed an illegal castration on a man in a remote Oklahoma cabin last year and has now been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Bob Lee Allen, 54, and his husband Thomas Evans ...

Louisiana lawmakers on Monday approved a bill that would expand judges’ powers to sentence people convicted of certain sex crimes against children to physical castration. If passed into law, the bill ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A person found guilty of a sex crime against a child in Louisiana could soon be ordered to undergo surgical castration, in addition to prison time. Louisiana lawmakers gave final ...

SEBRING, Fla. — A Sebring man faces a charge of practicing medicine without a license after deputies say he botched a castration procedure on another man. The Highlands County Sheriff's Office said ...

A convicted child sex offender in Louisiana has been sentenced to both surgical and chemical castration after pleading guilty to the attempted rape of a 7-year-old girl, according to a report by Fox ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By SARA CLINE (Associated Press) BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana judges could order surgical castration for people convicted of sex crimes against young ...