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

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

Bryan Kohberger, 30, is accused in the stabbing deaths of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves at ...

The state of Alabama has a complicated relationship with science, and its criminal courts are no exception. Often, state ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

The Associated Press reported that Richard Gerald Jordan is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State ...

Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?

As of June 19, 2025, there were 169 people on death row in Texas. Four of them are women, including Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in 2008 of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death.

Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in ...

Christopher Barbour tried to take back his confession more than 30 years ago. Now, new DNA points to someone else.

Catholic organizations had lobbied Pat Quinn to end the death penalty. The former governor was not previously aware of ...