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 ...

WLOX reporter Will Polston witnessed the execution of Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, Richard Gerald Jordan.

Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder and kidnapping of Edwina Marter.

Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder ...

Those executed included Thomas Gudinas, whose mental illness was shaped by his abusive upbringing and neglect, and Richard ...

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

Mississippi death row inmate Richard Jordan's execution is scheduled for June 25th, amidst legal challenges to the state's three-drug protocol. Jordan's attorneys argue for the use of Pentobarbital, ...

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.