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 ...

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

This collection of columns examines the debate in South Carolina over methods of execution for death row inmates. The articles discuss the involvement of the Newman family, with Clifton presiding over ...

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 ...