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 ...

One of America’s longest-serving death row inmates has been executed tonight (Weds) nearly five decades after he kidnapped ...

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

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976.