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.

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 ...

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

The Scottsboro Boys Museum is completely full. Not a seat open on the pew benches from the former Joyce Chapel building was ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of raping and killing a woman near a central Florida bar was executed Tuesday evening.

Killer rapist is the seventh inmate executed in Florida this year - Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, died by lethal injection at ...