Mississippi Executes Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Richard Gerald Jordan After Decades of Legal Battles
Mississippi Executes Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Richard Gerald Jordan After Decades of Legal Battles Mississippi has carried out the execution of Richard Gerald Jordan, the state’s longest-serving death row inmate, bringing an end to a nearly 50-year legal saga. Jordan, 79, received a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary on Wednesday, following decades of appeals and a final clemency denial. Jordan was sentenced to death in 1976 for the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, a bank loan officer’s…