PARCHMAN, Miss. — Richard Jordan, who spent nearly half a century on Mississippi’s death row, was lying strapped to a gurney with his arms splayed out and covered in a white sheet up to his ...

Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying he has exhausted all legal remedies.

Mississippi has executed a Vietnam combat veteran for murdering a stay-at-home mother of two sons in a failed attempt to flee with ransom money. Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's oldest death row ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme Court, was sentenced to death in 1976 ...

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on June 25, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Richard Gerald Jordan, 78, who was sentenced to death in ...

Richard Jordan, who has been on death row in Mississippi since 1977 for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, the wife of a Gulfport bank executive, learned the court denied a motion ...

Fitch filed the motion to set an execution date for 78-year-old Richard Gerald Jordan on Tuesday, after Jordan was denied an appeal from the state's high court. Jordan was convicted in the 1976 ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.

JACKSON, Mississippi -- Richard Gerald Jordan is the oldest inmate on Mississippi's death row at 68. He is also the longest serving death row inmate at 37 years. Jordan was convicted of capital murder ...

Thank you." Sheila O'Flaherty, who said she has come out for every execution in Mississippi since 1983, poses for a photo after protesting the execution of Richard Jordan on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.