Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death.

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme Court, was sentenced to death in 1976 ...

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

Then, after Ling’s murder, Stanko drove to Conway on April 8 to the home of 74-year-old Henry Turner, who considered Stanko a friend. When Stanko was there, he shot and killed Turner, stole his truck ...

In court papers quoted by the AP, an expert for Stanko, 57, suggested that the firing squad either aimed below the target or that the target was not placed on Mahdi's heart to "cause great pain ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas.

On May 7, FOX23 told you clemency was denied for Oklahoma death row inmate John Fitzgerald Hanson, also known as George John Hanson, who was convicted of the 1999 carjacking of 77-year-old Mary ...