criminal punishment

AP MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is in failing health because of a new suspected poisoning and is back in a punishment cell after a few days in regular confinement, a…

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge who previously concluded Arizona was providing inadequate medical and mental health care to prisoners said she will give the state three months to ensure it has enough health care…

By TRAVIS LOLLER - Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black told a state appeals court on Tuesday that he should not be executed because he is…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's conservative attorney general and Nashville's liberal district attorney are at odds over whether a death row inmate is intellectually disabled and consequently should not be executed.The…

By SEAN MURPHY - Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma has executed an inmate convicted of killing his infant daughter in 2002.Benjamin Cole was put to death Thursday at Oklahoma’s state…

By SEAN MURPHY - Associated Press Writer McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — A 57-year-old Oklahoma man is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Thursday for killing his 9-month-old daughter in 2002, despite…

By JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate who is set to be put to death in less than two weeks asked that his execution be delayed so he can donate a kidney.Ramiro Gonzales is…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee death row inmate convicted of a 1994 slaying can pursue arguments that he is intellectually disabled and should not be executed under state law, a federal judge has ruled.U.S. District…

By DAVE COLLINS - Associated Press David Harrington spent a tense eight months in a Philadelphia jail when he was a teenager — the result of a robbery charge in 2014 that automatically sent his case to…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee death row inmate is appealing a state trial court's dismissal of his request to be declared intellectually disabled, which would make him ineligible for execution.Earlier this year,…