Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death.

A death row inmate’s attorneys are asking the court to reverse a lower court’s decision that declined to decide eligibility ...

This story was updated Tuesday afternoon to reflect Gov. Tate Reeves’ statement. Gov. Tate Reeves says will not block the ...

U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate denied Jordan's motion for a preliminary injunction while Jordan continues to challenge ...

Byron Black, a 68-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, has filed a petition with the Tennessee Supreme Court to halt his ...

Protestors argue this is not a representation of who Jordan is. Jordan is a U.S. army veteran who served 3 voluntary tours of ...

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

The New York Times puts this down to a challenging combination of untrained executioners, difficulty in securing lethal drugs ...

A Utah judge ruled that Ralph Leroy Menzies, who has spent nearly 40 years on death row and was recently diagnosed with ...

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

Stanko's case made national headlines after he fled the crime scenes. He ended up in Augusta mingling with Masters golf fans ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has requested a new execution date for Robert Roberson, a Palestine man on death row who ...