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A Clarion Ledger reporter recounts what it was like to witness Mississippi’s execution of Richard Jordan, who spent nearly 50 ...
Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.
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 ...
The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the ...
The notorious Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman has long been a focal point for prison reform. It's a sprawling 18-thousand acre working farm in the Mississippi Delta ...
Calls for prison reform are rising after a spike in violence in correctional facilities in Mississippi. In the last 10 days, five inmates were killed in different state prisons. Three inmates were ...
Three inmates were killed this week at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, and two others have been killed since Dec. 29 elsewhere in the state’s prison system.
Half of all correctional-officer jobs in Mississippi’s state-run prisons are empty. A Marshall Project survey of all 50 state corrections systems nationwide found only Alabama had a higher ...
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