The South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville became the state's third prison to open a new chapel for its ...

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

He died by lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. The execution began at 6 p.m., according to prison officials.

It is the third prison chapel to open in Mississippi. The first two were built at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman and the Mississippi Correctional Institute for Women in Pearl.

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 ...

JACKSON, Miss. — Convicted killer Richard Jordan has been executed. MDOC officials say he died by lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at 6:16 p.m. The execution procedures began at ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.

He died by lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. The execution began at 6 p.m., according to prison officials.

Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed Wednesday nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom scheme.