Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was sentenced to death in 1976 for killing and kidnapping a mother of two young children that year ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was executed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. He was one of several people on ...

Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving and oldest death row inmate, was put to death by lethal injection.

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, received a lethal ...

Richard Jordan, 79, was convicted in 1976 of the murder of Edwina Marter, the wife of a bank executive in the town of ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme Court, was sentenced to death in 1976 ...

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman.

One other execution was scheduled to be carried out in the United States this week. Thomas Gudinas, 51, was to be put to death by lethal injection at 6:00 pm (2200 GMT) on Tuesday at the Florida ...

A man sentenced to death for murder in the state of Florida was executed late Tuesday, one of two executions in the United ...

The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the ...

A Mississippi man who had been on death row for nearly 50 years was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday (Thursday ...