As the punishing Mississippi sun baked the grounds of one of America’s most notorious prisons, a wheelchair-bound man was so ...

Mississippi is set to execute Richard Jordan on Wednesday.

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

How many people have been executed in Mississippi? How were their deaths conducted? How many women executed? Any notable ...

Those executed included Thomas Gudinas, whose mental illness was shaped by his abusive upbringing and neglect, and Richard Jordan, who suffered from PTSD after three combat tours in Vietnam.

The South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville became the state's third prison to open a new chapel for its ...

Danny Stewart and Pete Mercurio found baby Kevin in a Manhattan subway station 25 years ago. Now, their story is told in the ...

Jordan's execution came decades after he kidnapped and killed 35-year-old Edwina Marter, who was shot in the back of the head ...

The Mississippi Department of Corrections opened its newest chapel for inmates. The white church features a tall steeple with ...

Historical data from the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) provides a glimpse of how Mississippi carried out the death penalty. Mississippi has the highest ...

Mississippi executed Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's longest-serving death row inmate, nearly 50 years after he kidnapped and murdered Edwina Marter in a 1976 ransom scheme.