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The antipaladin's Touch of Corruption ability says that feats, spells, and abilities that affect lay on hands also work for touch of corruption.
What about cruelty? Many feats that affect lay on hands deal with a paladin's mercy class feature. For instance, Extra Lay On Hands requires the lay on hands class feature, but can be substituted it seems for touch of corruption. Would Extra Mercy also work, though? I know it has a prerequisite of requiring the mercy class feature. Cruelty is the antipaladin's version of mercy, could it be substituted here? Would an antipaladin be able to apply additional cruelties with this feat selected? The cruelty class feature doesn't say that feats, spells, and abilities that affect mercy affect cruelty like the touch of corruption ability does.
What about the feats from other books? Ultimate Magic has the Greater Mercy and Ultimate Mercy feats. Would Greater Mercy allow additional damage to be done with touch of corruption as long as an antipaladin chose to forgo applying a cruelty (if this is too powerful, perhaps it would instead raise the DC to resist a cruelty)? Would Ultimate Mercy allow an antipaladin to instead expend 10 uses of touch of corruption to slay a creature (or alternatively, repair a destroyed undead creature)?
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I've just searched for this, because I am a GM and have successfully turned a Paladin within the player party. I wholeheartedly agree with the OP, as there are very few specific feats for what is essentially the mirror image of the Paladin.
Firstly, the list of "Lay On Hands" only candidate feats are:
Extra Lay On Hands
Extra Mercy
Greater Mercy
Ultimate Mercy
Reward Of Grace
Reward Of Life
Radiant Charge
Word Of Healing
I'd simply allow the first two to be directly applicable to ToC.
The next few would require some modifications to the text, but with the prerequisites remaining somewhat the same as applicable. Therefore, I would respectfully suggest the following additions to the Paizo rulebooks:
Greater Cruelty
When you use your Touch Of Corruption ability to deal damage to a target, if that target is already suffering from the conditions you can apply, instead it deals an additional +1d6 points of damage.
Ultimate Cruelty
You can expend 10 uses of Touch Of Corruption to attempt to slay one creature you touch, as a slay living spell with a caster level equal to your antipaladin level. Alternatively, you could force the negative life force of an undead creature back into it's corpse, bringing back to unlife. You must provide the material component for raise dead or choose to accept 1 temporary negative level; this level automatically goes away after 24 hours, never becomes a permanent negative level, and cannot be overcome in any way except by waiting for the duration to expire.
Reward Of Execration
Each time you use your touch of corruption ability, you gain a +1 profane bonus on all attack rolls for 1 round.
Reward Of Anathema
Each time you use your touch of corruption ability to damage a creature, you heal a number of hit points equal to your Charisma bonus. This ability has no effect if you use lay on hands to heal undead.
- (Alternatively, it could be "equal to the damage dealt" as healing two characters is generally more favourable than damaging an enemy, just to beef this feat up a little.)
Dark Charge
When you hit with a charge attack, you can expend all of your remaining uses of touch of corruption to deal extra damage equal to 1d6 per use of touch of corruption expended + your Charisma bonus. This damage comes from unholy power and is not subject to damage reduction, energy immunities, or energy resistances.
Imprecation Of Destruction
You may use your touch of corruption to damage another creature at a range of 30 feet as a standard action that does not provoke an attack of opportunity. You must be able to speak and have a free hand to use this ability. The target takes half the amount they would have been damaged if you had touched them, but gains the benefits of your cruelties as normal.
- (Alternatively, it could change to "Before making a melee attack roll. you may expend on use of your Touch Of Corruption as a swift action to imbue your weapon with the profane power of your Touch Of Corruption ability. If the hit is successful, the target suffers the effects of your Touch Of Corruption ability, including any cruelties, as per normal. You may use this ability a number of times each day equal to 3 + your Wisdom/Charisma modifier)
I believe this is about as even and balanced as is conceivable, happy to stand corrected. I firmly believe that in most campaigns, Smite Good and Touch Of Corruption aren't as flexible and as good as their Smite Evil and Lay On Hands counterparts, so a little bit of tweaking to make them a bit more powerful isn't necessarily a bad thing.