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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.
People stunned to discover how death row prisoner spent final hours before his final meal
When a person is placed on Death Row, usually, people think their final moments are bleak - but one person’s last hours have ...
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California’s Death Row: Call for Universal Clemency From Civil Rights Leaders
A coalition of California and national civil rights leaders called on Governor Gavin Newsom to commute the death sentences of ...
Judges in Missouri can levy death if juries deadlock. Some say the law is unconstitutional
Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.
Vietnam veteran’s last words before execution after 47 years on death row
A man who spent decades on death row was executed yesterday after kidnapping and killing a banker’s wife in the 1970s.
Longest-serving death row inmate Richard Jordan executed after nearly 50yrs utters chilling last words with final breath
THE longest-serving death row inmate uttered a chilling set of last words with his dying breath. Richard Jordan, 79, spent almost five decades waiting to die – and was finally killed by ...
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 Wednesday evening.
A look at the status of US executions in 2025
Twenty-four men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Five other people are scheduled to be put ...
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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 ...