Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

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.

The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the ...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied an appeal of U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate’s decision to allow Jordan’s ...

Days away from a scheduled execution, the Richard Jordan legal team has filed new petitions in the hope that the U.S. Supreme ...