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 ...

Neither I ..nor the jury or anyone else put Richard Gerald Jordan where he is today,” former Gulfport prosecutor and attorney ...

Two death row inmates were executed by a pair of southern states ... Jurors then voted 11-1 that he be sentenced to death, which the judge signed off on. Hunt claimed in an interview last month he was ...

Two death row inmates were executed by a pair of southern states for their twisted murders minutes apart Tuesday evening. ... Hunt claimed in an interview last month he was a changed man, ...

Just a year ago, Henry Wong, was staring down at a death sentence. He was convicted for drug trafficking and at the time he ...

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

Gregory Hunt was convicted of murdering Karen Hunt, who he'd been dating for a month, in 1988, and is scheduled to be executed today (10 June).