Ellen Knickmeyer has reported on Guantanamo and the post-9/11 detainees since January 2002, when she covered the first ...

ABC News' Linsey Davis discusses the documentary "I am Ready, Warden," which follows a death row inmate, with Smriti Mundhra ...

For the past several weeks, a major challenge to Kansas’ death penalty has been underway in a Wyandotte County murder case.

A well-executed penalty kick can often mean the difference between success and failure for teams chasing glory. But what ...

Aaron Gunches asked the Arizona Supreme Court to issue an expedited execution warrant for him more than a decade after he was ...

It said the men, aged 18 to 35, were armed robbers and “urban bandits,” locally known as Kulunas, who were executed in northwest Congo at Angenga prison. Forty-five were killed in late December, and ...

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than authorities were aiming for, pushing as he had in the ...

A judge reinstated a stay of execution for a Lancaster man as he moves forward with the ongoing challenge to his conviction ...

Kevin Brian Dowling, who was found guilty of the 1997 murder of Jennifer Myers, will not see the death penalty anytime soon.

As a state prosecutor and district attorney, I became keenly aware that the death penalty does not serve victims or our ...

The president-elect wrote that he would direct the department to pursue the death penalty “as soon as I am inaugurated,” but was vague on what specific actions he may take and said they would ...

Trump said he will direct his Justice Department to "vigorously pursue" the death penalty to protect Americans from "violent rapists, murderers, and monsters". U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ...