Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

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 four trials, 79-year-old Richard Gerald Jordan was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter, a mother of two young children.

Richard Jordan, who has been on Death Row for nearly 50 years, is to be executed by lethal injection in Mississippi on ...

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

Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed Wednesday nearly five decades after he kidnapped and ...