A Clarion Ledger reporter recounts what it was like to witness Mississippi’s execution of Richard Jordan, who spent nearly 50 ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

SUNFLOWER CO., Miss. (WLBT) - After nearly five decades on death row, Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed by the ...

For those who have waited decades for the state to carry out the death sentence Jordan first received in 1976, Jordan’s execution is long overdue. Jordan was sentenced to death for the Jan. 11, 1976, ...

Mississippi death row inmate Richard Jordan will eat his last meal at 4 p.m. ahead of his execution Wednesday, June 25.

At a 2 p.m. briefing, MDOC Superintendent Burl Cain and a colleague talked about what he experienced in the days leading up to his scheduled execution at 6 p.m.

Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain listens during a press conference at Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman on the day of Richard Jordan's execution, Wednesday ...

When asked what kind of inmate Jordan had been during his decades on death row, McClure said only that he has never been a “problematic inmate.” "The Mississippi Department of Corrections is ...

He was sentenced to death in 1977 for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, a Gulfport bank executive's wife. He is also the state's longest-serving death row prisoner.

Edwina had a life like a lot of us here. She was a wife, mother, sister, aunt, and friend. She was loved and needed. Her story ended the day Jordan made the decision to take her life.