Mentally Disabled Combat Veterans Should Never Get the Death Penalty

Mentally disabled combat veterans should never get the death penalty

The use of the death penalty against U.S. combat veterans manifests a paradox in American culture.

Mississippi is set to execute Richard Jordan. Here's a look at every US execution in 2025

For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more scheduled in the months ahead.

Protesters fight execution of Mississippi Army veteran

80-year-old Richard Jordan faces execution of Wednesday

U.S Supreme Court denies stay of execution for Richard Jordan - WXXV News 25

With just two days to go until Richard Jordan’s scheduled execution at Parchman, the man convicted in the 1976 killing of a Gulfport woman received another denial today, this time from the country’s highest court. The Supreme Court denied Jordan’s application for an emergency stay of execution today. Jordan’s attorneys had filed the petition to the high court for consideration in late May. This move from the court comes just days after a federal…