Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

Twenty-four men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Five other people are scheduled to be put ...

Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death.

Jordan was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and killing a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom scheme.

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 ...

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, ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.

On June 24, death row inmate Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke, ...

Nearly 50 years after the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter in Harrison County, Richard Gerald Jordan was executed Wednesday evening.