It's been nearly 50 years since Eric Marter's mother, Edwina Marter, was kidnapped from the family home in Gulfport, Mississippi, and murdered by Richard Jordan. Jordan is scheduled to be executed on ...

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 ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom ...