Tennessee Inmates Ask Court to Stop Scheduling Executions

Judge continues bond hearing for former death row inmate Richard Glossip

An Oklahoma County judge continued a bond hearing Tuesday for Richard Glossip, who was on death row in Oklahoma for nearly 30 years.

Judge to decide next week if state can move forward with execution of 79-year-old inmate

Judge to decide next week if state can move forward with execution of 79-year-old inmate JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – A federal judge will likely decide early next week whether the state can move forward with the execution of Richard Gerald Jordan. The state’s longest-serving death row inmate is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on June 25. However, attorneys for the 79-year-old filed a motion for a temporary injunction earlier this month,…

Tennessee inmates ask court to stop scheduling executions

Richard Jordan requests clemency - WXXV News 25

The man currently on death row for killing a Gulfport banker’s wife back in 1976 is now seeking clemency from Governor Tate Reeves. Richard Jordan is scheduled to be executed on June 25 and in an effort to seek clemency, the Mississippi Office of Capital Post Conviction Counsel released a video on YouTube in which Jordan shares his story and asks the state not to execute him. In the video, Jordan, along with his family members, experts and even …

Stay of death row inmate’s June execution to wait on judge’s response

U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate said he will decide Monday whether to delay Richard Jordan’s execution. The 79- year-old death row inmate’s defense argues that the set method of execution might constitute “cruel and unusual punishment.”