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

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

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

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman.

Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

Louisiana's chief legal officer is appealing to the state Supreme Court for the justices to develop a standard that would ...