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

The 6-3 decision in favor of Ruben Gutierrez gives him a potential path to have evidence tested that his lawyers say would ...

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

A Mississippi man who had been on death row for nearly five decades for the murder of the wife of a bank loan officer in a ransom scheme was executed Wednesday. Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year ...

Jordan, 79, was convicted and sentenced to death for the Jan. 13, 1976, kidnapping and murder of 34-year-old Edwina Marter, who was a stay-at-home mother of two young sons. It was Mississippi's ...

More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death sentences over accusations of its constitutionality and racial discrimination.

Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976.

So far in 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed eight death warrants, tying a record for a single year. Here's a look at who's ...