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 scheme.

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed Wednesday nearly five decades after he kidnapped and kille ...

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

The convicted murderer, a Vietnam War veteran, was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and murdering the wife of a bank ...

At least seven death row cases have been overturned due to inadequate representation or malicious prosecution. Mississippi has executed 372 people since becoming a state, with 23 executions ...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied an appeal of U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate’s decision to allow Jordan’s ...