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 ...

After nearly five decades on death row, Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed by the state on Wednesday. Jordan is the ...

Nearly 50 years after the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter in Harrison County, Richard Gerald Jordan was executed Wednesday evening.

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

By Crystal Tisme Click here for updates on this story PARCHMAN, Mississippi (WAPT) — Mississippi held a state-sanctioned execution Wednesday — its first since 2022. The state’s longest-serving death ...

Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest serving and oldest death row inmate, died by lethal injection Wednesday evening at the ...

Richard Gerald Jordan has been put to death for the 1976 murder and kidnapping of Edwina Marter, a mom-of-two, nearly 50 ...

Jordan is the longest-serving death row inmate in the state of Mississippi. Jordan was sentenced to death in the 1976 slaying of Edwina Marter, a mother of two. Jordan had kidnapped Mrs. Marter in an ...