Chemical Castration is described as castration via anaphrodisiac drugs, whether to reduce libido and sexual activity.

Three Pennsyvlania representatives plan to introduce legislation that would allow courts to order the chemical or surgical ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has become the first state where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children to undergo surgical castration under a bill signed into law ...

Louisiana lawmakers passed legislation this week that allows judges to sentence child sex offenders to surgical castration. Assuming the bill is signed into law, as is expected, Louisiana will become ...

Baton Rouge, La. — Louisiana judges could order surgical castration for people convicted of sex crimes against young children under legislation approved Monday, and if Republican Gov. Jeff Landry ...

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.

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.

Last year, Louisiana became the first state to authorize surgical castration for child molesters. Last month, Thomas Allen McCartney, a convicted serial child rapist, was sentenced to both surgical ...