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 ...

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

Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976.

Lemaricus Davidson, one of five people convicted in the 2007 murders of Chris Newsom and Channon Christian, appeared in court Wednesday.

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 ...

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, ...

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

A “heat dome” of high pressure has settled in over the central and eastern United States, sending temperatures soaring into ...

Christopher Barbour tried to take back his confession more than 30 years ago. Now, new DNA points to someone else.