Richard Jordan was executed in Mississippi on June 25 for the 1976 murder and kidnapping of Edwina Marter Jordan, 79, was the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row “It ...

Richard Gerald Jordan was executed Wednesday in Mississippi after spending nearly 50 years on death row following his 1976 conviction[1,2].

Jordan, 79, was sentenced to death in January 1976 for kidnapping and killing Edwina Marter in Harrison County.

Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest serving and oldest death row inmate, died by lethal injection Wednesday evening at the Mississippi State Penitentiary nearly 50 years after he kidnapped and ...

It was my 10th one to witness, and it was all the same," said Burl Cain, Mississippi Department of Corrections commissioner.Jordan was convicted in the 1976 kidnapping and killing of Edwina Marter in ...

Mississippi Supreme Court records show that in January 1976, Jordan called the Gulf National Bank in Gulfport and asked to speak with a loan officer. After he was told that Charles Marter could speak ...

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 ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, 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 ...