Other notable death in April include basketball Hall of Famer Dick Barnett, “Dennis the Menace” star Jay North, former ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25 ...

Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled to die on May 22, declined to select a method meaning it ...

In a ruling Thursday, the state’s high court said Jordan had exhausted all state and federal appeals and set the execution ...

Gerald Powers, a Tennessee man who a judge sentenced to death 26 years ago, died Saturday on death row. He was 70. Powers' official cause of death is pending the medical examiner's report ...

Mississippi's Supreme Court has set June 25 as the execution date for Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's longest-serving ...

Nichols, 64, argues the terms of that agreement must be extended to him, a fellow death row prisoner, or else the state is "unequally applying" its laws. Nichols sued Tennessee Attorney General ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, the home of Tennessee's death row, isn't too far from downtown Nashville. It's almost 200 miles away from the yellow courthouse in ...