SHREVEPORT, La. (KTBS) — A convicted sex offender was back in court earlier this week, where a judge decided whether he would face castration as part of his sentence. Floyd Lee Cathron, 61, was ...

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Surgical castration is now a possibility for a person who is found guilty of a sex crime against a child in Louisiana. State lawmakers apprpoved the measure Monday that would allow ...

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 judges could order surgical castration for people convicted of sex crimes against young children under legislation approved Monday, and if Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signs it into law, the ...

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In Louisiana, sex offenders found guilty of crimes against children younger than 13 years old could soon be ordered to undergo surgical castration in addition to serving prison time. The first-of-its ...