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Jordan's execution came decades after he kidnapped and killed 35-year-old Edwina Marter, who was shot in the back of the head ...
Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder ...
Richard Jordan's execution in Mississippi on Wednesday can proceed, a federal appellate court ruled in upholding a ruling allowing lethal injection.
The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.
Why Mississippi prisoner Richard Jordan sentenced to death four times, and why it took decades to set an execution date for a murder he confessed to.
If the execution is not halted, prayerful protest vigils will start Wednesday at 4:45 p.m. in front of the Governor's Mansion and at 5 p.m. at the Mississippi State Penitentiary also known as Parchman ...
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, Mississippi's longest-serving death-row inmate, chose chicken tenders, fries, strawberry ice cream, and a root beer float for his last meal.
Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years, faces death this week.