How many people have been executed in Mississippi? How were their deaths conducted? How many women executed? Any notable ...

I waited alongside six other journalists from throughout the state to witness the scheduled execution of Richard Jordan, 79, a convicted murderer who had spent the past 48 years on Mississippi’s death ...

Mississippi death row inmate Richard Jordan will eat his last meal at 4 p.m. ahead of his execution Wednesday, June 25.

After four trials, 79-year-old Richard Gerald Jordan was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter, a mother of two young children.

Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder ...

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 ...

A man sentenced to death for murder in the state of Florida was executed late Tuesday, one of two executions in the United States this week. Richard Jordan, 79, was convicted and sentenced to death in ...

Richard Jordan's hopes for a preliminary injunction that would stop his execution, at least temporarily, were dashed after a federal judge denied relief.

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

The youngest prisoner on Mississippi's death row is 37-year-old Terry Pitchford. He was sentenced to death in 2006 for killing a man in a Grenada County grocery store in 2004.

David Neal Cox was put to death at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, after being on death row for over nine years. Cox, 50, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m., Mississippi Department of ...

Jordan's execution came decades after he kidnapped and killed 35-year-old Edwina Marter, who was shot in the back of the head ...