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By Crystal Tisme Click here for updates on this story PARCHMAN, Mississippi (WAPT) — Mississippi held a state-sanctioned execution Wednesday — its first since 2022. The state’s longest-serving death ...
A judge ruled that he has the authority to weigh an injunction over California's claim that President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act.
Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest serving and oldest death row inmate, died by lethal injection Wednesday evening at the ...
Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?
Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death.
A Mississippi man who had been on death row for nearly 50 years was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday (Thursday ...
The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...
The convicted murderer, a Vietnam War veteran, was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and murdering the wife of a bank ...
Jordan's execution came decades after he kidnapped and killed 35-year-old Edwina Marter, who was shot in the back of the head on Jan. 12, 1976.
Twenty-five men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and four other people are scheduled to be put to death in three states during the remainder of 2025. The latest ...