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, ...

Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976.

Inmates living on death row in the U.S. wait an average of 22 years for ... 57, was a serial killer who pretended to be a ...

Christopher Barbour tried to take back his confession more than 30 years ago. Now, new DNA points to someone else.

All of the inmates were male, ranging in age from 41 to 69. Most were killed by lethal injection, with the exception of Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a Memphis judge did not have the authority to give a man formerly on death row ...

The demographics of death row There are 612 people in California prisons currently sentenced to die. ... San Quentin State Prison is the only death row for male inmates in the state.

Had Wood been executed this week, he would have spent 32 years and two months on Texas' death row, the longest time a Texas inmate has waited before being put to death.. The 1987 murders ...

Ahead of his 2011 execution, Brewer ordered a massive final meal including a bowl of fried okra with ketchup, two chicken steaks with gravy and onions, and a cheese omelette with ground beef, ...

After 15 years on the state’s death row for male inmates at Jackson, Clark is the second state inmate to have his capital sentence reduced to life in prison in the past year.