This article was originally published by The Marshall Project. Last year, Louisiana sparked a slew of sensational headlines when state legislators passed a law allowing surgical castration as ...

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 ...

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.