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Mississippi is set to execute the state’s longest-serving death row inmate
Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, is scheduled to receive ...
‘She was loved and needed’: Family reacts after execution of Richard Jordan at Parchman
The family of Edwina Marter issued two statements Wednesday following the execution of Richard Jordan, who was convicted of killing her in 1976.
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Mississippi executes Vietnam vet, longest-held death row inmate, for 1976 murder
Mississippi executed 79-year-old Richard Jordan, the longest-serving US death row inmate, nearly 50 years after he kidnapped ...
After 49 years, Richard Gerald Jordan faces execution
Nearly 50 years after the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter in Harrison County, Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be ...
Trump's budget director defends NPR, PBS, foreign aid cuts to senators
White House budget director Russell Vought on Wednesday urged U.S. senators to approve the Trump administration's proposed ...
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After almost half a century on Death Row, longest-serving inmate is executed
Richard Jordan, 79, was executed 49 years later on Wednesday night after what, to some, has been a full lifetime.
Mississippi executes its longest-tenured death row inmate
Nearly 50 years after the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter in Harrison County, Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed on Wednesday. A few showers and storms are moving across South ...
Longest-serving Miss. death row inmate Richard Gerald Jordan thankful for ‘humane’ execution
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 ...