Richard Jordan, the longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, was executed Wednesday night at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. Photo by Mississippi Department of ...

Mississippi executes Vietnam veteran Richard Jordan for murder of stay-at-home mom of 2 Jordan's execution came nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed 35-year-old Edwina Marter, who was ...

Mississippi has executed a Vietnam combat veteran for murdering a stay-at-home mother of two sons in a failed attempt to flee with ransom money. Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's oldest death row ...

Mississippi prisoner Richard Jordan is scheduled to appear at the Thad Cochran United States Courthouse on Saturday. Jordan is currently the state's oldest and longest-serving death row inmate ...

Mississippi has executed a Vietnam combat veteran for murdering a stay-at-home mother of two sons in a failed attempt to flee with ransom money. Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's oldest death row ...

Richard Jordan has been on death row in Mississippi since 1977 for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, the wife of a Gulfport bank executive. At 78, Jordan is the oldest prisoner on ...

Crime Vietnam veteran executed in Mississippi after nearly 50 years on death row for 1976 murder Richard Jordan, 79, killed young mother Edwina Marter in a 1976 ransom plot targeting bank officer ...

Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest serving and oldest death row inmate, died by lethal injection Wednesday evening at the Mississippi State Penitentiary nearly 50 years after he kidnapped and ...

Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying he has exhausted all legal remedies.

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on June 25, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Richard Gerald Jordan, 78, who was sentenced to death in ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Wednesday, Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate, filed court documents asking for post-conviction relief and/or to have his death sentence ...