US EditionMississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state’s death row for 1976 killing
- Mississippi executed Richard Gerald Jordan, the state’s longest-serving death row inmate, by lethal injection on Wednesday in Parchman for a 1976 kidnapping and killing.
- Jordan’s sentence followed his fatal shooting of Edwina Marter, a bank loan officer’s wife, during a violent ransom scheme earlier that year in 1976.
- Jordan, aged 79 and a Vietnam War veteran diagnosed with severe PTSD, was not provided access to a mental health expert during his defense, despite arguments that his condition may have influenced his criminal actions.
- Jordan thanked his wife Marsha and lawyer Krissy Nobile, apologized to the victim’s family, and said, “I will see you on the other side, all of you,” before death was pronounced at 6:16 pm Central Time.
- This execution is Mississippi's third in ten years, the first since December 2022, and underscores ongoing legal challenges over the state’s three-drug lethal injection protocol deemed inhumane by inmates.
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Justice Served as 80 Year Old Man in Prison for 50 Years Put to Death
I don't know anything more about this story than what I read here. This certainly doesn't seem necessary to me. In fact this is the most ugly side of our society and it appeals to the darkest side of humanity, the side of fear and hate. State sponsored...
At 18.16 this Wednesday (local time), Richard Jordan received a lethal injection in the Mississippi State Penitentiary that killed him. He was 79 years old. Of them, almost half a century had been spent on death row. Jordan, a Vietnam veteran, had been sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder in 1979 of a 34-year-old woman and was the longest-standing prisoner awaiting execution, according to information from the correctional department …
Richard Gerald Jordan, Vietnam War Veteran, was on death row in Mississippi for almost 50 years for the crime of a woman
He was the longest-serving death row inmate in the US state of Mississippi, but Richard Jordan (79) was finally executed on Wednesday after almost 50 years. The American was sentenced to death for kidnapping and murdering the wife of a bank employee.
Longest-serving death row inmate executed as he utters chilling final words
THE longest-serving death row inmate uttered a chilling set of last words with his dying breath. Richard Jordan, 79, spent almost five decades waiting to die – and was finally killed by lethal injection on Wednesday. AFPRichard Jordan, 79, was executed after almost five decades on death row[/caption] HandoutJordan kidnapped and murdered Edwina Marter after speaking to her husband on the phone[/caption] GettyJordan was strapped to a bed and admin…
(AFP) A man sentenced to death for a murder committed in 1976 and who spent almost half a century on death row was executed on Wednesday with lethal injection in Mississippi. Read more]]>
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