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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 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…

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Mississippi Executes Richard Jordan, Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate, After Nearly 50 Years

Mississippi Executes Richard Jordan, Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate, After Nearly 50 Years

Mississippi Executes Richard Jordan, Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate, After Nearly 50 Years In a profound and long-awaited development for Mississippi’s justice system, Richard Jordan, the state’s longest-serving death row inmate, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday night. The execution, carried out at 6:16 p.m. CDT on June 25 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, marks the state’s first in three years and brings to a close a nearly five-decade legal saga. Jordan, 79, had spent 49 years incarcerated…

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