Mississippi prisoner Richard Gerald Jordan was dealt another blow in his last-minute effort to stop his execution, set for Wednesday, June 25.

Richard Jordan, the longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, was executed Wednesday night at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. Photo by Mississippi Department of ...

Mississippi executes Vietnam veteran Richard Jordan for murder of stay-at-home mom of 2 Jordan's execution came nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed 35-year-old Edwina Marter, who was ...

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 ...

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.

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Wednesday, Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate, filed court documents asking for post-conviction relief and/or to have his death sentence ...

Mississippi prisoner Richard Jordan is scheduled to appear at the Thad Cochran United States Courthouse on Saturday. Jordan is currently the state's oldest and longest-serving death row inmate ...

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 ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously denied the latest appeal from a man who has been on the state's death row longer than any other inmate. Richard Gerald Jordan ...