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Mississippi Demands Execution Date Be Set For State's Longest Serving Death Row Inmate

Richard Gerald Jordan

Since his conviction in 1976, Richard Jordan has been tried, convicted, and received the death sentence four times.

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US to Have Deadliest Week on Death Row in 20 Years

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The US is slated for its deadliest week on death row in 20 years, with five scheduled executions to take place in Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas.

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Tattooed killer Wade Wilson sits motionless as judge hands down death penalty for double murder

Tattooed killer Wade Wilson sits motionless as judge hands down death penalty for double murder

The Swastika-tattooed Florida murderer Wade Wilson, 30, discovered his fate this afternoon when Judge Nick Thompson delivered the final verdict on his life.

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Ohio’s New Lethal Injection Process Illegal, Says Federal Judge

New Utah bill may allow executions of human traffickers

Man Executed in Texas for Killing Game Warden 9 Years Ago

Fate of death row inmates in Florida became uncertain after US Supreme Court's announcement of changing capital punishments

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Florida’s Death Penalty System Unconstitutional

U.S. justices unlikely to address death penalty's constitutionality

China orders compensation to acquitted death row prisoner

U.N. chief appeals to Indonesia to stop death row executions

China considers abolishing death penalty for nine crimes

Dehli Gang Rape: Indian Court Sentences 4 Men To Death by Hanging for the Fatal Beating of Woman on Moving Bus (Video)

Alabama Execution: Rights Group Argued Andrew Reid Lackey Had Been Mentally Ill Prior to Receiving Death Penalty

Inmates John King And Brian Tucker Captured After Escape From Texas Jail