The change reflects growing recognition within the Vietnamese legislative system that capital punishment is not a ...

Those executed included Thomas Gudinas, whose mental illness was shaped by his abusive upbringing and neglect, and Richard ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

Catholics in Vietnam have welcomed the lifting of the death penalty for eight crimes in the communist-ruled nation, saying emphasis must be placed on protecting life and aiding the reintegration of ...

In a significant shift that is garnering attention both domestically and internationally, the Vietnamese government has abolished the death penalty ...

A man guilty of murdering nine people, most of whom had posted suicidal thoughts on social media, has been executed in Japan.Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the "Twitter killer", was sentenced to death ...

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

Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest serving and oldest death row inmate, died by lethal injection Wednesday evening at the ...

Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death.

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

Jordan's execution came decades after he kidnapped and killed 35-year-old Edwina Marter, who was shot in the back of the head ...