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A Clarion Ledger reporter recounts what it was like to witness Mississippi’s execution of Richard Jordan, who spent nearly 50 ...
After four trials, 79-year-old Richard Gerald Jordan was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter, a ...
The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the ...
Mississippi death row inmate Richard Jordan will eat his last meal at 4 p.m. ahead of his execution Wednesday, June 25.
Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder ...
Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed Wednesday nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom scheme. Richard Gerald ...
For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more ...
Those executed included Thomas Gudinas, whose mental illness was shaped by his abusive upbringing and neglect, and Richard ...
Jordan, 79, was put to death by lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman Wednesday evening, nearly 50 years on from when he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s ...
As the punishing Mississippi sun baked the grounds of one of America’s most notorious prisons, a wheelchair-bound man was so ...
Mississippi prisoner Richard Jordan is continuing to fight his impending execution, this time filing an appeal to a federal judge's ruling.
Jordan, 79, was scheduled for execution at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 25, at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. Jordan was sentenced to death in 1977 for the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter.
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