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Mississippi has executed a Vietnam combat veteran for murdering a stay-at-home mother of two sons in a failed attempt to flee with ransom money. Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's oldest death row ...

Richard Jordan, on death row for 48 years, attended a hearing challenging Mississippi's lethal injection drugs. Jordan's attorney argued that midazolam, the first drug used, doesn't prevent pain ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. — Richard Jordan, who spent nearly half a century on Mississippi’s death row, was lying strapped to a gurney with his arms splayed out and covered in a white sheet up to his neck when ...

Nearly five decades after being convicted of kidnapping and murder, the longest-serving man on Mississippi's death row was executed Wednesday by lethal injection. “I will see you on the other side, ...

Death penalty opponents are holding vigils to protest the upcoming execution of Richard Jordan in Mississippi. Jordan was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Edwina Marter in 1976. He has been on ...

A Mississippi man who had been on death row for nearly five decades for the murder of the wife of a bank loan officer in a ransom scheme was executed Wednesday. Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. (WDAM) - Convicted killer Richard Gerald Jordan was executed by lethal injection Wednesday evening at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. The 79-year-old Jordan, a Hattiesburg native ...

Richard Jordan was executed on June 25 for the murder and kidnapping of Edwina Marter 49 years ago Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and ...