Should Mississippi continue to use a three-part drug protocol to execute prisoners? That was one of the questions raised Saturday, June 14, at a hearing in federal court in Jackson. Richard Jordan, a ...

Mississippi has executed a Vietnam combat veteran for murdering a stay-at-home mother of two sons in a failed attempt to flee with ransom money. Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's oldest death row ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court set an execution date for Richard Jordan, the state's oldest and longest-serving prisoner on death row. The execution date is set for June 25, exactly one month after his ...

Richard Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death-row inmate, chose chicken tenders, fries, strawberry ice cream, and a root beer float for his last meal. Jordan, 79, was scheduled for execution at ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate, is set to be executed on Wednesday, June 25, at 6 p.m. Ahead of his execution date, prison reform ...

Death penalty opponents are holding vigils to protest the upcoming execution of Richard Jordan in Mississippi. Jordan was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Edwina Marter in 1976. He has been on ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. — The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom scheme.

This will be the second execution in Mississippi this year, following Richard Jordan's in June. PARCHMAN, Miss. — Charles Ray ...

Jordan's attorneys argue that he was denied due process because he was not provided independent mental health assistance during his 1998 sentencing. Jordan has been sentenced to death four times for ...