Purple Reign, Kansas State basketball's alumni team in The Basketball Tournament, could be headed for a Kansas City summer version of the Sunflower Showdown. TBT, the annual $1 million winner-take ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme Court, was sentenced to death in 1976 ...

The longest-serving man on Mississippi's death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom scheme. Richard Gerald ...

Jordan was again convicted and sentenced to die in 1983. That ruling was reversed and remanded by the U.S. Supreme Court. While his conviction was on appeal, Jordan was given a plea deal “in ...

Jordan, 79, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, June 25, at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. On Monday, June 23, the United States Supreme Court denied Jordan's petition for a ...

State calls Richard Jordan's petition "meritless."Jordan was sentenced to death in Jackson County Circuit Court for the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, 35. She was a married mother of two. She ...

Jordan is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, June 25, at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. The justices gave no explanation for the denial for the 79-year-old's request.

As the Jordan family exited the meeting and were already in the parking lot, James stopped his son and spoke to him sternly. "Son, that was embarrassing to your mother and I," James told Michael.

Mississippi Department of Corrections / AP file Jordan was one of several on the state's death row who sued the state over its three-drug execution protocol, claiming it is inhumane.