The request comes shortly after Gov. Mike Braun suggested that state lawmakers take up debate on capital punishment.

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The man who raped and killed Spencer County 15-year-old Stacy Payne in 2001 may soon be put to death for his actions. The ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Indiana seeks execution date for Roy Lee Ward, despite previous plans to pause lethal injection drug purchases.

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

Clive Crook is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and member of the editorial board covering economics. Previously, he was deputy editor of the Economist and chief Washington commentator for the Financial ...

Under SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities Act), 1989 giving false evidence leading to the execution of an innocent member belonging to the SC or ST would attract the death penalty.

The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the ...

Two suspects in a 2021 home invasion murder will not face the death penalty after being indicted by a grand jury.

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, received a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary after being on death row since ...