Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, was executed by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Parchman.

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 ...

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

Lemaricus Davidson, one of five people convicted in the 2007 murders of Chris Newsom and Channon Christian, appeared in court ...

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

Richard Gerald Jordan, one of America's longest-serving death row inmates, will be executed on Wednesday, with the ...

A death row inmate’s attorneys are asking the court to reverse a lower court’s decision that declined to decide eligibility ...

Death row prisoner Byron Black is asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to step in and delay his scheduled Aug. 5 execution.

Catholic organizations had lobbied Pat Quinn to end the death penalty. The former governor was not previously aware of ...

Diddy's involvement in Tupac Shakur's murder became a topic of discussion once again when it was brought up during a trial in January.