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

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

Twenty-four men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Five other people are scheduled to be put to death in four states during the remainder of 2025.