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

Mississippi death row inmate Richard Jordan will eat his last meal at 4 p.m. ahead of his execution Wednesday, June 25.

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 ...

6:30 p.m.: Richard Gerald Jordan was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 6:16 p.m., after being injected with a three drug-cocktail to induce his death. A consciousness check was performed after ...

Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed Wednesday nearly five decades after he kidnapped and ...

For those who have waited decades for the state to carry out the death sentence Jordan first received in 1976, Jordan’s execution is long overdue. Jordan was sentenced to death for the Jan. 11, 1976, ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death row prisoner, made a last-minute appeal ahead of his scheduled ...

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

He was sentenced to death in 1977 and spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row — longer than any inmate in state history ... Eric and Kevin. In a previous interview with the Hattiesburg American, ...

Elements of California’s final budget deal are bringing to the forefront housing debates that have been simmering in the Legislature for years, forcing lawmakers to make big decisions before the ...

A Denver judge said Wednesday that state law doesn’t allow officials to comply with a federal immigration subpoena that Gov. Jared Polis had decided to fulfill, and he ...