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 ...

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 ...

Jordan's petition was denied despite a pending response from the U.S. Supreme Court on an open petition. The 79-year-old has been on death row for 48 years for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter. The ...

A Mississippi man who had been on death row for nearly five decades for the murder of the wife of a bank loan officer in a ransom scheme was executed Wednesday. Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. — Richard Jordan, who spent nearly half a century on Mississippi’s death row, was lying strapped to a gurney with his arms splayed out and covered in a white sheet up to his neck when ...

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 ...

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 ...

Executions may be legal in Mississippi but that doesn't make them right, a group of advocates for abolishing the death penalty said during a news conference Wednesday, May 28, on the steps of the ...