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 ...

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

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, ...

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.

MDOC Commissioner Burl Cain came in to shake everyone’s hand before the press conference, where officials shared what Jordan had ordered for his last meal. The press conference was over in minutes.

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 ...

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 ...

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.