The convicted killer, 79-year-old Richard Jordan, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, June 25, at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison farm, according to the ...

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

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

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 ...

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

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

Richard Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi on Wednesday, 49 years after he kidnapped and killed Edwina Marter, a ...

Richard Gerald Jordan has been put to death for the 1976 murder and kidnapping of Edwina Marter, a mom-of-two, nearly 50 ...

The longest-serving inmate on Mississippi’s death row asked for forgiveness — and was thankful for the “humane” lethal injection that took his life Wednesday — before he eerily promised ...

Jordan, at 79, is the oldest prisoner on Mississippi's death row. He was sentenced to death in 1977 for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, a Gulfport bank executive's wife.

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...