The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday ... He also thanked his lawyers and his wife and ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death row prisoner, made a last-minute appeal ahead of his scheduled ...

Mississippi death row inmate Richard Jordan will eat his last meal at 4 p.m. ahead of his execution Wednesday, June 25.

For those who have waited decades for the state to carry out the death sentence Jordan first received in 1976, Jordan’s execution is long overdue. Jordan was sentenced to death for the Jan. 11, 1976, ...

Neither I ..nor the jury or anyone else put Richard Gerald Jordan where he is today,” former Gulfport prosecutor and attorney, Joe Sam Owen, said. “He did it himself. He wants life without parole. He ...

The state of Oklahoma executed death row inmate John Hanson on Thursday. Officials say Hanson and an accomplice carjacked and ...