PARCHMAN, Miss. — Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death-row inmate, requested chicken tenders, fries, strawberry ice cream and a root beer float for his last meal ahead of his scheduled ...

Mississippi has executed a Vietnam combat veteran for murdering a stay-at-home mother of two sons in a failed attempt to flee with ransom money. Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's oldest death row ...

Should Mississippi continue to use a three-part drug protocol to execute prisoners? That was one of the questions raised Saturday, June 14, at a hearing in federal court in Jackson. Richard Jordan, a ...

Richard Jordan, who is the oldest prisoner on Mississippi's death row, is in a fight for his life, but Attorney General Lynn Fitch says he is out of legal options and needs to stop wasting the court's ...

Death penalty opponents are holding vigils to protest the upcoming execution of Richard Jordan in Mississippi. Jordan was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Edwina Marter in 1976. He has been on ...

Mississippi’s oldest and longest serving death row prisoner, Richard Jordan, is trying again to challenge his sentence, this time arguing that it is invalid because the death penalty was not ...

CANTON − The Rev. Richard Jordan did not expect to spend more than five years in the pulpit of Antioch Baptist Church when he started in 1994. But 30 years later, he remains the shepherd of the city's ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — People with heavy hearts ...