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 ...

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

Jordan's execution came decades after he kidnapped and killed 35-year-old Edwina Marter, who was shot in the back of the head on Jan. 12, 1976.

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

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

Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was the seventh person put to death in Florida this year, with an eighth scheduled for next month.

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

Richard Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi on Wednesday, 49 years after he kidnapped and killed Edwina Marter, a ...

An unnecessary and deadly high-speed car chase ensued after a police officer threatened to physically remove the Bristow mom ...

This image provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Thomas Lee Gudinas, who is scheduled to receive a lethal ...

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