There are a lot of reasons that the death penalty is almost never imposed anymore. As a growing cadre of experts has ...

A federal trial date is set for the man accused of killing a woman and kidnapping her daughters in the deadly Amber Alert ...

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

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing two people and injuring six more in a mass ...

A man who spent decades on death row before being granted a new trial returned to court in Hamilton County Wednesday.

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

The Arizona Supreme Court has set a schedule for the state to request a warrant of execution after a two-year death penalty ...

Shannon Wayne Agofsky and Len Davis both filed emergency petitions prevent their death sentences from being commuted to life ...

A lethal injection expert has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to deny the attorney general's request for an execution warrant ...

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis have filed emergency petitions seeking to block the commutations of their death sentences.

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

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis believe the life sentences put them at a legal disadvantage with them planning to seek appeals ...