Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?

IF JORDAN RECEIVES THE FIRST 500MG OF THE MEDICATION, THAT LEAVES HIM STILL CONSCIOUS Mississippi held a state-sanctioned execution Wednesday — its first since 2022.The state's longest-serving death ...

Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest serving and oldest death row inmate, died by lethal injection Wednesday evening at the ...

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

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

Twenty-five men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Four other people are scheduled to be put ...

Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law ending the death penalty in Illinois, the future pope thanked him for the move. That recently ...

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 ...

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

Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon imprisoned in the country’s largest financial fraud case. The changes ended ...