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FILE – This March 17, 2015, file photo shows the home where the body of a 3-month-old girl, Jayniah Watkins, was found in the College Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati. Deasia Watkins pleaded guilty to murder Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in the stabbing and decapitation of her 3-month-old daughter Jayniah Watkins in March 2015. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Charles J. Kubicki Jr. sentenced Watkins to 15 years to life in prison. (Amanda Rossmann/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP, File)
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FILE – In this March 20, 2015, file photo, Deasia Watkins, 22, appears in Hamilton County Municipal Court in Cincinnati. Watkins pleaded guilty to murder Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in the stabbing and decapitation of her 3-month-old daughter Jayniah Watkins in March 2015. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Charles J. Kubicki Jr. sentenced Watkins to 15 years to life in prison. (Henry Molski/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP, File) /The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP)
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FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Hamilton County, Ohio, Sheriff's Office shows Deasia Watkins, who pleaded guilty to murder Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in the stabbing and decapitation of her 3-month-old daughter Jayniah Watkins in March 2015. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Charles J. Kubicki Jr. sentenced Watkins to 15 years to life in prison. (Hamilton County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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North Dakota Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier talks about the law enforcement effort after a sweep was conducted to clear the Oceti Sakowin camp of the last Dakota Access pipeline protesters Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, near Cannon Ball, N.D. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, Pool)
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Law enforcement enters the Oceti Sakowin camp to begin arresting Dakota Access oil pipeline protesters in Morton County, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, near Cannon Ball, N.D. As the arrests were underway law enforcement personnel drove several large construction equipment into the camp to begin the cleanup process and razing tents and structures. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, Pool)
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An elderly woman is escorted to a transport van after being arrested by law enforcement at the Oceti Sakowin camp as part of the final sweep of the Dakota Access pipeline protesters in Morton County, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, near Cannon Ball, N.D. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, Pool)
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Several dozen law enforcement personal march south on Highway 1806 before assembling above the Oceti Sakowin camp to begin the final sweep of Dakota Access oil pipeline of the camp and arrests of protesters Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, near Cannon Ball, N.D. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, Pool)
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Law enforcement enters the Oceti Sakowin camp to begin arresting Dakota Access Pipeline protesters in Morton County, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, near Cannon Ball, N.D. As the arrests were underway law enforcement personnel drove several large construction equipment into the camp to begin the cleanup process of razing tents and structures. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, Pool) ** FILE **
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A backhoe rips through a wood structure to begin the cleaning up process at the Oceti Sakowin camp as law enforcement swept through the camp arresting the final Dakota Access oil pipeline protesters in Morton County Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, near Cannon Ball, N.D. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, Pool)
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A law enforcement officer climbs a ladder to speak to one of the final holdouts of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp sitting atop a wood structure built at the Oceti Sakowin camp in Morton County Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, near Cannon Ball, N.D. After a couple of hours the protester came down on his own and was arrested. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, Pool)
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Actress Jane Fonda speaks at a press conference for indigenous rights, in Edmonton Alta, on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)
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A resident digs out a pickup in near-whiteout conditions Thursday morning, Feb. 23, 2017 during a winter storm in Casper, Wyoming. (Alan Rogers /The Casper Star-Tribune via AP)
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FILE - In this December 2016 file photo provided by the U.S. Forest Service, B.J. Hill from Swift Creek Outfitters helps rescue his horse, Valentine, from a remote area in northwestern Wyoming. Valentine spent eight weeks in the wilderness after being left behind by an excursion company after getting sick. Prosecutors announced Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017 that they haven't found any evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the case. (U.S. Forest Service via AP, File)
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FILE - This Dec. 1, 2016, file photo, a police officer carries his weapon as he walks along the street in front of Mueller Park Junior High after a student fired a gun into the ceiling, in Bountiful, Utah. A Utah teenager who pleaded guilty to firing the shotgun before being disarmed by his parents is set to be sentenced Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2016, file photo, a police officer directs students down the street following a school lockdown at Mueller Park Junior High after a student fired a gun into the ceiling, in Bountiful, Utah. A Utah teenager who pleaded guilty to firing the shotgun before being disarmed by his parents is set to be sentenced Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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This Feb 22, 2017 photo released by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation shows Ryan Alexander Duke, in Georgia. Duke was arrested by authorities on murder charges in the disappearance of a high school teacher in rural south Georgia more than 11 years ago. (Georgia Bureau of Investigation via AP)
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CORRECTS LAST NAME TO PURINTON - This undated photo provided by the Henry County Sheriff's Office in Clinton, Mo., shows Adam Purinton, of Olathe, Kan., who was arrested early Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in connection with a shooting at a bar in Olathe that left one person dead and and wounding two others. Purinton waived extradition during a brief court hearing in Henry County in Missouri and will be returned to Kansas. (Henry County (Mo.) Sheriff's Office via AP)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016 file photo, Creighton guard Maurice Watson Jr. (10) dribbles in the lane against Seton Hall during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Omaha, Neb. Police said Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017 that Creighton basketball player Maurice Watson Jr. is a suspect in an alleged sexual assault in Omaha. (AP Photo/John Peterson, File)
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Atlanta Braves infielder Dansby Swanson takes batting practice during baseball spring training Monday, Feb. 20, 2017, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
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This photo provided by the Vigo County Sheriff's Department shows Sarah Beth Travioli, one of four people charged with neglect in the death of a malnourished 9-year-old Indiana boy with cerebral palsy. Cameron R. Hoopingarner was blind and weighed less than 15 pounds when officers found him Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, at a home near Fontanet, Ind., 60 miles west of Indianapolis, Vigo County Sheriff Greg Ewing said. The officers were responding to a call about a child in cardiac arrest. Cameron was pronounced dead at a hospital. (Vigo County Sheriffs Department via AP)