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

Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia offers exactly that raw, unfiltered connection to the past – a crumbling cathedral of correction that draws visitors from every corner of Pennsylvania and ...

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

Mississippi has 37 death row inmates and all but one are men. Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, is the longest-serving death row ...

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 ...

Death row inmates to be executed in Florida, Mississippi Richard Jordan, 79, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1976 for the murder of Edwina Marter, the wife of a bank executive in the town ...

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.

A divided Supreme Court is allowing states to cut off Medicaid money for Planned Parenthood amid a wider Republican-backed ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, one of America's longest-serving death row inmates, will be executed on Wednesday, with the ...

Mississippi carried out the execution of Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who had spent nearly five ...

FLORENCE, Ariz. — An Arizona death row inmate who murdered his wife and young daughter has died in what the Department of Corrections is calling an apparent suicide.

Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed Wednesday nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom scheme.