GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)-The Mississippi Supreme Court has issued an order setting an execution date for Richard Gerald Jordan. That date is set for June 25, 2025. Jordan is facing the death sentence for the 1976 capital murder and kidnapping of…
The state Supreme Court has denied post-conviction relief to a Gulfport man convicted in the rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl in 2014. Alberto Garcia was sentenced to death in 2017 after confessing to raping and hanging to death…
The Mississippi Senate has voted to add gas chamber and electrocution as execution options in case courts block the state from obtaining lethal injection drugs. Lethal injection is Mississippi’s only execution method. The state faces lawsuits claiming drugs it plans…
Alberto Garcia has been sentenced to death in the murder of five-year-old Ja’Naya Thompson. This sentencing was handed down two and a half years after the heart wrenching discovery of her body in Gulfport. News 25 was in the courtroom…