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

Nearly 50 years after the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter in Harrison County, Richard Gerald Jordan was executed ...

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

Convicted killer Richard Gerald Jordan was executed by lethal injection. The 79-year-old Jordan, a Hattiesburg native who ...

Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate and the man convicted of killing a Gulfport woman back in 1976, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening at the Mississippi State ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976. We take accuracy seriously and strive to earn your trust with fair and ...

More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death sentences over accusations of its constitutionality and racial discrimination.

Richard Jordan's execution in Mississippi will proceed at 6 p.m. after last-minute efforts to convince the U.S. Supreme Court failed to grant a stay.