The Louisiana legislature on Monday approved a bill that provides surgical castration as a sentencing option for certain aggravated sexual offenses against children younger than thirteen. Aggravated ...

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.

In the extensive catalogue of cruelty that humans have inflicted on others, castration surely occupies a special place, not least because permanent sterilization is the outcome. As in all other male ...