Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand is close to introducing chemical castration as a means of tackling sex crime after lawmakers approved ...

Texas lawmakers made voluntary castration available for sex offenders in 1997, and since then, three have been surgically castrated. While orchiectomy, surgical removal of the testes, may lower male ...

A Schaumburg man who pleaded guilty to sex crimes against two young girls was granted a medical furlough from jail Thursday so he can undergo voluntary surgical castration–a procedure he says he ...

There's a front-pager in the NYT about a subject near and dear to my heart: castration of sex offenders. (Apparently, there is great debate raging over the Czech Republic's use of the technique.) Yeah ...

And now, bioethicist Jacob M. Appel, MD, JD, weighs in: Castration -- both chemical and surgical -- has recently gained renewed attention from physicians and policy makers as a way to prevent ...

The pilot for the voluntary chemical castration of sex offenders will be extended to 20 prisons in England, the justice secretary has said. Shabana Mahmood said she would expand a small pilot in south ...

BERLINBERLIN — Germany should do away with the practice of surgical castration of sex offenders, the Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee recommended Wednesday, calling the procedure degrading ...

(CBS/AP) PORT ALLEN, La. - Going under the knife to get on with his life. Convicted pedophile Francis Tullier, 78, cut his prison sentence in half - and that's not all - as he underwent voluntary ...

A British man who regularly fantasized about raping and murdering women voluntarily underwent chemical castration so he’d be stopped from killing. The unnamed man, in his early-20s, told TV viewers he ...