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…