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

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

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

Richard Jordan's execution in Mississippi will proceed at 6 p.m. after last-minute efforts to convince the U.S. Supreme Court ...

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

Mississippi has executed 374 people, including two before becoming a state in 1817, according to a report by the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit organization that tracks executions ...

This was Mississippi’s first execution in three years. Thomas Loden, a convicted murderer and rapist, was executed in December 2022. Loden's execution also began at 6 p.m.

No other executions in Mississippi are scheduled this year, according to the MDOC website. He died by lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m. CDT, the Mississippi Department of ...