Richard Jordan's execution in Mississippi on Wednesday can proceed, a federal appellate court ruled in upholding a ruling allowing lethal injection.

Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's oldest death row inmate at 79, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, June 25, and pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m. local time.

Crime Vietnam veteran executed in Mississippi after nearly 50 years on death row for 1976 murder Richard Jordan, 79, killed young mother Edwina Marter in a 1976 ransom plot targeting bank officer ...

The Rev. Richard Jordan (third from left), senior pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Canton, is being honored for 30 years of service. With him are some members of his leadership team (from left ...

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

Richard Jordan, 79, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday, June 25, at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.

Jordan, now-79-year-old, also tried to collect a $25,000 ransom in exchange for her return, even though he knew she was already dead. When Jordan was arrested, he led authorities to Marter's body.

PARCHMAN, Miss. — Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death-row inmate, requested chicken tenders, fries, strawberry ice cream and a root beer float for his last meal ahead of his ...

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