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

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

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

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

The Howard County coroner has released the cause of death for an inmate at the Howard County Jail who was found unresponsive ...

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

There are criminal charges in connection with two recent deaths at the state penitentiary. One of the suspects is accused of ...

Neither I ..nor the jury or anyone else put Richard Gerald Jordan where he is today,” former Gulfport prosecutor and attorney, Joe Sam Owen, said. “He did it himself. He wants life without parole. He ...

Jordan is slated to die on June 25. On Saturday, attorneys asked to delay that execution, saying that the three-drug protocol used by the Mississippi Department of Corrections in the lethal injection ...

The attorney general’s office is defending the cases after recusing itself from the homicide investigations involving Brooks' death, as well as the March 1 beating of 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi ...

Richard Gerald Jordan is sentenced to die by lethal injection later this month at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.

With 426 inmates attending, the clinic that was held Tuesday and Wednesday was the largest to date to take place in a state prison, according to MDOC spokeswoman Jenni Riehle.