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

The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the ...

Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed Wednesday nearly five decades after he kidnapped and ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976.

More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death ...

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

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

Since 2000, at least seven people have been exonerated after courts found serious flaws associated with a theory called "bite ...

The accomplice who paid a teenage hitman to kill a former cop's wife in 1994 has died on death row more than three decades ...

Richard Jordan, 79, was convicted in 1976 of the murder of Edwina Marter, the wife of a bank executive in the town of ...