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

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

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

An odd theme is cropping up in which death row inmates Gov. DeSantis chooses to execute next: Why are many of them ...

Oklahoma prosecutors will retry longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip a third time for his role in the 1997 killing of his former boss, Attorney General Gentner Drummond said Monday.

A man who was convicted of killing multiple people in Sacramento County decades ago was found dead in his prison cell earlier this week, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ...

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

At the time, Jones had been in prison for more than 20 years and penned four books about life on death row, detailing the daily grind of his days in a 5-foot by 9-foot cell.