BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Louisiana has become the first state in the United States where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children to undergo surgical castration under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Tuesday.
While the punishment of surgical castration is used in other countries that are known for harsher criminal sanctions — among them Czech Republic and Nigeria — it will be new in the United States. The governor's office confirmed to the Associated Press on Friday that Landry had signed the bill.Proponents of the Louisiana law, which takes effect on August 1, hope the new possible punishment would deter people from committing sex crimes against children.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry speaks during a press conference at the Louisiana State Capitol in the state capital Baton Rouge on June 18, 2024. The legislation gives judges in the south-central US state the option to sentence someone to surgical castration after the person has been convicted of certain aggravated sex crimes — including rape, incest and molestation — against a child younger than 13. The punishment is not automatic and would be on a case-to-case basis by individual cases and at the discretion of the judge.Louisiana has 2,224 people in prison for such crimes.
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