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

Attorneys representing Kyla Holmes filed a lawsuit in Ingham County Circuit Court on Monday, June 30, against Chris Gautz, ...

Historical data from the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) provides a glimpse of how Mississippi carried out the death penalty. Mississippi has the highest ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) is rolling out a new pilot program aimed at enhancing security and streamlining ...

The 6,000-square-foot chapel, which seats 175 people, is part of an ongoing project to build worship facilities at all MDOC institutions.A dedication program was held Monday.The facility's inmate band ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. — Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death-row inmate, requested chicken tenders, fries, strawberry ice cream and a root beer float for his last meal ahead of his ...

MDOC officials say Jordan’s last meal would consist of chicken tenders, French fries, strawberry ice cream and a root beer float. Jordan was the state's longest-serving and oldest death row inmate ...

Mississippi has 37 death row inmates and all but one are men. Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, is the longest-serving death row ...

For those who have waited decades for the state to carry out the death sentence Jordan first received in 1976, Jordan’s execution is long overdue. Jordan was sentenced to death for the Jan. 11, 1976, ...

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 ...

A Mississippi man who had been on Death Row for nearly 50 years was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, one of two ...