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Inside a Mississippi execution: Clarion Ledger reporter recounts what it was like
A Clarion Ledger reporter recounts what it was like to witness Mississippi’s execution of Richard Jordan, who spent nearly 50 ...
Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for 1976 killing
The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed ...
Mississippi executes man on death row for nearly 50 years
The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the ...
Vietnam veteran executed in Mississippi after nearly 50 years on death row for 1976 murder
After four trials, 79-year-old Richard Gerald Jordan was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter, a ...
Mississippi’s death row: A look at the 37 inmates, and the crimes they committed
Mississippi has 37 death row inmates and all but one are men. Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, is the longest-serving death row ...
Richard Gerald Jordan's Final Words Before Mississippi Execution
Jordan was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and killing a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom scheme.
Mississippi executes state’s longest-tenured death row inmate, Richard Gerald Jordan
Nearly 50 years after the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter in Harrison County, Richard Gerald Jordan was executed ...
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Lawmaker probing Mississippi’s prisons finds inmates suffering from treatable diseases as corrections asks for more money
As the punishing Mississippi sun baked the grounds of one of America’s most notorious prisons, a wheelchair-bound man was so ...
Executed this week in the US: A Florida inmate with severe mental illness, a Vietnam veteran in Mississippi with PTSD
Those executed included Thomas Gudinas, whose mental illness was shaped by his abusive upbringing and neglect, and Richard ...
Mississippi executes its longest-tenured death row inmate
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 ...
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Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for 1976 killing
He died by lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. Advertisement. Article continues below this ad. The execution began at 6 p.m., according to prison officials.