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Longest-Serving Man on Miss. Death Row Executed for 1976 Murder: 'Should Have Happened a Long Time Ago,' Victim’s Son Says
Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder ...
On This Day: U.S. Supreme Court finds death penalty unconstitutional
On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...
Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state’s death row for 1976 killing
The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed ...
Mississippi set to execute state's longest-serving death row inmate
Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death ...
‘DNA doesn’t lie:’ On death row in Alabama, DNA doesn’t matter
The state of Alabama has a complicated relationship with science, and its criminal courts are no exception. Often, state ...
Confronted with DNA, Alabama offers theory that ‘defies logic’ to keep man on death row
Christopher Barbour tried to take back his confession more than 30 years ago. Now, new DNA points to someone else.
Mississippi executes inmate after nearly 50 years. Is death penalty legal in PA, NJ?
Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?
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Mississippi executes state's longest-serving death row inmate: What we know
The Associated Press reported that Richard Gerald Jordan is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State ...