The convicted murderer, a Vietnam War veteran, was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and murdering the wife of a bank ...

Jordan's execution came decades after he kidnapped and killed 35-year-old Edwina Marter, who was shot in the back of the head ...

Richard Gerald Jordan apologized to his victim's family and pleaded for forgiveness from his wife in his final statement as ...

Mississippi on Wednesday (Jun 25) executed a man who spent nearly 50 years on death row. The inmate, identified as 79-year-old Richard Jordan, was executed by lethal injection and was one of the two ...

Convicted killer Richard Jordan, the state's longest-serving and oldest death row inmate, has been executed. Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) officials say he died by lethal injection at ...

Nearly 50 years after the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter in Harrison County, Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed on Wednesday. A few showers and storms are moving across South ...

First I would like to thank everyone for a humane way of doing this. I want to apologize to the victim’s family.” ...

IF JORDAN RECEIVES THE FIRST 500MG OF THE MEDICATION, THAT LEAVES HIM STILL CONSCIOUS Mississippi held a state-sanctioned execution — its first since 2022.The state's longest-serving death row inmate, ...

Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate and the man convicted of killing a Gulfport woman back in 1976, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening at the Mississippi State ...

MDOC leaders say his time of death was 6:16 p.m.

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter. Jordan, a Vietnam ...