Richard Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi on Wednesday, 49 years after he kidnapped and killed Edwina Marter, a ...

For those who have waited decades for the state to carry out the death sentence Jordan first received in 1976, Jordan’s execution is long overdue. Jordan was sentenced to death for the Jan. 11, 1976, ...

Once she did, Jordan took her and left her younger son unarmed. He had her drive to the DeSoto National Forest where he shot ...

Richard Gerald Jordan has been through four jury trials, filed appeal after appeal and is still fighting his death sentence days before his execution.

Neither I ..nor the jury or anyone else put Richard Gerald Jordan where he is today,” former Gulfport prosecutor and attorney, Joe Sam Owen, said. “He did it himself. He wants life without parole. He ...