A Clarion Ledger reporter recounts what it was like to witness Mississippi’s execution of Richard Jordan, who spent nearly 50 ...

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

Those executed included Thomas Gudinas, whose mental illness was shaped by his abusive upbringing and neglect, and Richard ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

Despite decades of attempted legal interference and motions filed to prevent it, Mississippi's longest-serving death row ...

Mississippi on Wednesday (Jun 25) executed a man who spent nearly 50 years on death row. The inmate, identified as 79-year-old Richard Jordan, was executed by lethal injection and was one of the two ...

Convicted killer Richard Jordan, the state's longest-serving and oldest death row inmate, has been executed. Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) officials say he died by lethal injection at ...

Cox, 50, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m., Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain said. Around 6:30 p.m., Cain addressed media to say Cox's execution went smoothly.

Hood is a spiritual adviser who accompanies death row inmates to their executions, praying for them and sharing last words with them as a culmination of a months-, sometimes years-long relationship.