The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

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

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

The Associated Press reported that Richard Gerald Jordan is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State ...

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 for Ruben Gutierrez, a Texas death row inmate, granting a path for DNA testing that could impact his execution eligibility.

The longest-serving inmate on Mississippi’s death row asked for forgiveness — and was thankful for the “humane” lethal injection that took his life Wednesday — before he eerily promised ...

Historical data from the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) provides a glimpse of how Mississippi carried out the death penalty. Mississippi has the highest ...

ATMORE, Ala. — A man convicted of beating a woman to death nearly 37 years ago is scheduled to be executed Tuesday in Alabama in what will be the nation’s sixth execution with nitrogen ...

(AP) — A man convicted of beating a woman to death nearly 37 years ago is scheduled ... is now among the longest-serving inmates on Alabama’s death row. He said prison became his “hospital” to heal ...