On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Mississippi set an execution date for Richard Gerald Jordan nearly 50 years after he murdered Edwina Marter in Harrison County.

Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying ...

In a ruling Thursday, the state’s high court said Jordan had exhausted all state and federal appeals and set the execution ...

The death of a 37-year-old man follows an assault inside the Raymond Detention Center as a federal receiver is poised to take ...

An Army combat veteran whose Gulf War experience triggered severe mental problems is scheduled to be executed Thursday in ...

Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they ...

Suge Knight agreed to a seven-figure settlement with Terry Carter's family over a 2015 fatal hit-and-run, ending a legal fight before retrial.

A hearing was held Thursday, April 17 in Caddo District Court for a death row inmate who is trying to appeal his sentence.

Suge Knight agreed to a $1.5 million settlement on the eve of a retrial over claims he negligently killed a Compton dad.

Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled to die on May 22, declined to select a method meaning it ...

Idaho won’t be able to carry out the death penalty until prison officials improve what execution witnesses can hear and see ...

Former Deer Park resident Jeffrey Hutchinson, a Gulf War veteran, will be put to death Thursday by the state of Florida for ...