Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

Clive Stafford Smith, who is retired from Death Row law, continues to campaign against the penalty and claims the US is ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.

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

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 ...

Jordan was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and killing a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom scheme.

Death Penalty; Death row killer Gregory Hunt makes hand gesture moments before he's executed ... He was executed using nitrogen gas, strapped to a gurney with a blue-rimmed mask covering his face.

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas.

Strapped to a gurney with a blue-rimmed mask covering his entire face ... “Gregory Hunt spent more time on death row than Karen spent alive.” Hunt was among the longest-serving inmates on Alabama’s ...

Most of the 23 states that still have an active death penalty allow a certain number of journalists to witness executions, as ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma prosecutors will pursue a murder charge, but not the death penalty, against longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip for his role in the 1997 killing ...