Mississippi prisoner Richard Jordan is continuing to fight his impending execution, this time filing an appeal to a federal judge's ruling.

Jordan was sentenced to death in 1977 for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, a Gulfport bank executive's wife. He has been on death row for 48 years, making him the state's longest ...

Jordan was sentenced to death in 1977 for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, a Gulfport bank executive's wife. He has been on death row for 48 years, making him the state's longest ...

Wainwright, whose execution is scheduled for June 10, was convicted of kidnapping a woman from a Winn-Dixie parking lot in Lake City in 1994, then raping and murdering her in rural Hamilton County.

A 1995 sentencing order by Circuit Judge E. Vernon Douglas described the murder as "extremely wicked, evil and vile," noting that Gayheart was forced to contemplate her fate for over an hour as ...

Starbucks has a new plan to get you your caffeine faster. Right now, baristas process orders first come, first served. But the company says a new algorithm will optimize the sequence of order prep.

The order also requires an evaulation of the pipeline’s special permit, which allows the line to operate at higher-than-normal pressures, to determine if new or modified conditions are necessary.

Federal regulators have ordered the operator of the Keystone Pipeline to take several corrective actions after a rupture caused 147,000 gallons of oil to spill onto farmland in North Dakota.

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to eliminate an agency that’s been … ...