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 ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was sentenced to death in 1976 for killing and kidnapping a mother of two young children earlier that year.

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

Missouri is one of only two states in which judges can unilaterally impose the death penalty when a jury can’t agree on ...

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

Iran's foreign minister said America's airstrikes on nuclear targets were "outrageous" and will have "everlasting ...

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment, according to Death Penalty Information Center: Georgia, along with ...

ST. LOUIS — Missouri 's status as one of the most active death penalty states is about to change for one simple reason: The state is running out of inmates to execute. The lethal injection of ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri ‘s status as one of the most active death penalty states is about to change for one simple reason: The state is running out of inmates to execute. The lethal injecti… ...