U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate denied Jordan's motion for a preliminary injunction while Jordan continues to challenge Mississippi's three-drug protocol for executions. His att ...

Carl Wayne Buntion, Texas' oldest executed inmate, spent 31 years on death row for killing a Houston officer, highlighting ...

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in ...

The oldest inmate on death row had some fiery words for Tennessee 's governor as he was executed for murdering his estranged wife and her teenage sons. Oscar Franklin Smith, 75, was killed by ...

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for execution. The 6-3 decision in favor of Ruben ...

Jordan was the state's longest-serving and oldest death row inmate when executed. This comes after the United States Supreme Court denied an application for stay of execution earlier today. Orders ...

The Associated Press reported that Richard Gerald Jordan is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, and he is one of several people on Mississippi's death row ...

The longest-serving inmate on Mississippi’s death row asked for forgiveness — and was thankful for the “humane” lethal injection that took his life Wednesday — before he eerily promised ...

Richard Jordan, Mississippi's oldest death row inmate, has been given a June 25 execution date. Jordan was sentenced to death for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter.

The Rev. Jeff Hood, a noted anti-death penalty activist and death row spiritual adviser, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.