If you’re driving along Interstate-81 on July 1st and 2nd, you may see a boosted law enforcement presence, as the Virginia ...

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

Louisiana's chief legal officer is appealing to the state Supreme Court for the justices to develop a standard that would expedite the executions of five inmates on death row.

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

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

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

Mississippi has 37 death row inmates and all but one are men. Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, is the longest-serving death row ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is asking the state Supreme Court to review and potentially expedite five death penalty cases, saying they have languished in the court system for too long and ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (WLBT) - The legal options appear to be running out for Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate. On ...

Death penalty politics reached a significant political flashpoint in Virginia’s 2005 gubernatorial race between Democrat Tim Kaine, the lieutenant governor at the time and now a U.S. senator ...

CHARLESTON — Another Republican lawmaker is calling for a return to the death penalty in West Virginia for specific cases, but others question the effectiveness of the death penalty. In a press ...