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

The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was sentenced to death in 1976 for killing and kidnapping a mother of two young children that year ...

As of June 19, 2025, there were 169 people on death row in Texas. Four of them are women, including Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in 2008 of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death.

Maurice Berry Jr., 22, said in trial that he reacted quickly and fired, but his bullets didn't hit the intended victim; they struck and killed a bystander.

Paul Weisenburger saw his friend sitting in the chair and thought he was napping. “I thought he was asleep,” Weisenburger said of Father Joseph F. Moreno Jr. “I pushed the ...