US EditionMississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state’s death row for 1976 killing
- Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday at 6:16pm local time in Parchman for the 1976 kidnapping and killing of Edwina Marter.
- Jordan’s execution followed his 1976 conviction for a violent ransom scheme involving the murder of a bank officer's wife, despite petitions citing his PTSD from three tours in the Vietnam War as reason for clemency.
- Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who was not provided mental health support during his trial, apologized to the victim’s family and thanked his wife Marsha and lawyer Krissy Nobile during his final moments.
- He was pronounced dead at 6:16pm Central Time, one day after Thomas Gudinas’ lethal injection execution in Florida; Mississippi has carried out three executions in the past decade.
- The execution highlights ongoing legal and ethical debates over capital punishment, with Jordan among several inmates suing Mississippi over its three-drug lethal injection protocol, which some claim is inhumane.
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Justice Served as 80 Year Old Man in Prison for 50 Years Put to Death
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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 …
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]]>
Richard Gerald Jordan was sentenced in 1976 for shooting his credit officer's wife. Vietnam veteran suffered from a post-traumatic stress disorder.
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