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

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

Stanko is serving two death sentences for crimes he committed in April 2005 in Horry and Georgetown counties. Stanko bound, beat and strangled his girlfriend Laura Ling to death while he beat and ...

The silver lining was that Merle Haggard got the chance to see Johnny Cash during his infamous San Quentin prison performance on January 1, 1958. After Merle Haggard saw Cash at 19 years old in ...

Two death row inmates were executed by a pair of southern states for their twisted murders minutes apart Tuesday evening. Anthony Wainwright was put to death in Florida and Gregory Hunt was killed ...

Two death row inmates were executed by a pair of southern states for their twisted murders minutes apart Tuesday evening. Anthony Wainwright was put to death in Florida and Gregory Hunt was killed ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying out executions By JEFFREY COLLINS - Associated Press Jun 11, 2025 ...

In the death chambers of the Mississippi Delta, on a rainy night in an Indiana penitentiary, and in the early hours at an Alabama prison, Elizabeth Bruenig has seen three men die.

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead at 6:26 ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead ...

California’s community-based prison programs are proven to cut recidivism by half. Learn why funding rehabilitation is key for public safety and reentry.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A former correctional officer at the Southern Regional Jail was sentenced to six years and six months in federal prison Monday for her role in the 2022 beating death of ...