How many people have been executed in Mississippi? How were their deaths conducted? How many women executed? Any notable executions? We have answers.

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

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

Mississippi death row inmate Richard Jordan will eat his last meal at 4 p.m. ahead of his execution Wednesday, June 25.

After four trials, 79-year-old Richard Gerald Jordan was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter, a mother of two young children.

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

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

For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more ...

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years, faces death this week.

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter. Jordan, a Vietnam veteran, apologized to t ...

Mississippi death row houses 37 inmates, with criminals convicted in cases of murder and capital crimes. Discover the histories of these convicted individuals.

Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest-serving man on Mississippi's death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom ...