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Supreme Court Sides With Death Row Prisoner Seeking DNA Testing
For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman.
Longest-serving Miss. death row inmate Richard Gerald Jordan thankful for ‘humane’ execution
Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme Court, was sentenced to death in 1976 ...
Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state’s death row for 1976 killing
Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death.
Justices side with Texas death row inmate seeking DNA testing to show he shouldn't be executed
His lawyers have said there was no physical or forensic evidence connecting him to a fatal stabbing decades ago.
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Attorney general files writs to speed up Louisiana executions
Attorney General Liz Murrill is pressing the Louisiana Supreme Court to come up with standards that she hopes will bring to ...
Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976
Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976.
Death sentence in 1976: Mississippi executes longest-serving death row inmate, Richard Jordan after 49 years
Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter. Jordan, a Vietnam ...
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Chilling final words of Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate executed almost 50 years after crime
Richard Gerald Jordan has been put to death for the 1976 murder and kidnapping of Edwina Marter, a mom-of-two, nearly 50 ...