A Clarion Ledger reporter recounts what it was like to witness Mississippi’s execution of Richard Jordan, who spent nearly 50 ...

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson last week voted along with 79 other House Democrats seeking articles of impeachment against ...

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

Those executed included Thomas Gudinas, whose mental illness was shaped by his abusive upbringing and neglect, and Richard ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

State lawmakers passed a slew of bills in both regular and special sessions in 2025 that become laws on July 1.

The South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville became the state's third prison to open a new chapel for its ...

The family of Lauren Johansen, a Southern Miss nursing student who was allegedly slain by her ex-boyfriend, Bricen Rivers is ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

Despite decades of attempted legal interference and motions filed to prevent it, Mississippi's longest-serving death row ...

Jordan was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and killing a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom scheme.