Should Mississippi continue to use a three-part drug protocol to execute prisoners? That was one of the questions raised Saturday, June 14, at a hearing in federal court in Jackson. Richard Jordan, a ...

In an effort to seek clemency for convicted murderer Richard Gerald Jordan, the Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel released a video in which Jordan shares his story and asks the ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court set an execution date for Richard Jordan, the state's oldest and longest-serving prisoner on death row. The execution date is set for June 25, exactly one month after his ...

Jordan's petition was denied despite a pending response from the U.S. Supreme Court on an open petition. The 79-year-old has been on death row for 48 years for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter. The ...

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 ...

Death penalty opponents are holding vigils to protest the upcoming execution of Richard Jordan in Mississippi. Jordan was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Edwina Marter in 1976. He has been on ...

A Mississippi man who had been on death row for nearly five decades for the murder of the wife of a bank loan officer in a ransom scheme was executed Wednesday. Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court set an execution date for Richard Jordan, the state’s oldest and longest-serving prisoner on death row. The execution date is set for June 25, exactly one month after his ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - On Wednesday, a group of prison reform advocates gathered virtually to speak out against the death penalty in Mississippi. The group included spiritual adviser Rev. Jeff Hood, ...

Executions may be legal in Mississippi but that doesn't make them right, a group of advocates for abolishing the death penalty said during a news conference Wednesday, May 28, on the steps of the ...