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'Mississippi's oldest death row inmate' executed after nearly five decades on death row
Mississippi on Wednesday (Jun 25) executed a man who spent nearly 50 years on death row. The inmate, identified as 79-year-old Richard Jordan, was executed by lethal injection and was one of the two ...
Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976
Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976.
Mississippi executes longest-serving man on the state's death row for 1976 killing
Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was sentenced to death in 1976 for killing and kidnapping a mother of two young children earlier that year.
‘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.
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 ...