On his final day in office, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba announced the reopening of Thalia Mara Hall, nearly 10 months after ...

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

Twenty-five men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Six other people are scheduled to be put to death in five states during the remainder ...

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

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

Jordan's execution came decades after he kidnapped and killed 35-year-old Edwina Marter, who was shot in the back of the head ...

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.

Jordan's clemency petition and request to meet with Governor Reeves are pending. The quest to halt the execution of Mississippi prisoner Richard Jordan is speeding up as his execution date nears.

Jordan's clemency petition and request to meet with Governor Reeves are pending. The quest to halt the execution of Mississippi prisoner Richard Jordan is speeding up as his execution date nears.