Editor's Note (2/22/25): This article has been updated to reflect the latest KFF data for health insurance company denial rates in Mississippi. It’s just before Christmas, and customers intermittently ...

Executions continue a cycle of violence and must end, a group of advocates for abolishing the death penalty said during a news conference Tuesday, Oct. 7, on the steps of the Mississippi Supreme Court ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate. In the remaining weeks before his scheduled execution, Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s oldest and longest serving death row inmate, ...

Hood described it as "disturbing" that Mississippi's leaders and national officials remain so "removed" from these executions, never having to witness or carry them out themselves. "People who are at ...