Criminal punishment

NEW YORK (AP) — Six weeks after her arrival at Rikers Island, an argument over who should clean a jailhouse shower sent Candie Hailey...

By Jan. 13, 2016 4:27 PM EST 0 2 photos SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Lawrence Phillips, a star running back at Nebraska and...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Gay rights activists gathered in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia on the Fourth of July to mark the progress of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday called the botched execution of an Oklahoma inmate "deeply troubling" and announced that he's going to...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The botched execution of an Oklahoma inmate is certain to fire up the debate over what constitutes cruel and unusual...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma death row inmate writhed, clenched his teeth and appeared to struggle against the restraints holding him to a...

This undated file photo released by the Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections shows Harry Mitts. (AP Photo/Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, File) by Julie Carr SmithAP Statehouse Correspondent LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A White gunman who spewed racial slurs before fatally shooting a Black man and a police officer in a 1994 rampage that prosecutors called one of Ohio's worst crimes was put to death Wednesday with the state's last dose of its execution drug.