Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mississippi has executed a Vietnam combat veteran for murdering a stay-at-home mother of two sons in a failed attempt to flee with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PARCHMAN, Miss. — Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death-row inmate, requested chicken tenders, fries, strawberry ice ...

AFTER NEARLY FIVE DECADES ON DEATH ROW-- THE STATE'S OLDEST AND LONGEST SERVING INMATE HAS BEEN EXECUTED. GOOD EVENING-- I'M ERIN PICKENS. 79-YEAR-OLD RICHARD JORDAN WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD BY THE ...

Should Mississippi continue to use a three-part drug protocol to execute prisoners? That was one of the questions raised Saturday, June 14, at a hearing in federal court in Jackson. Richard Jordan, a ...

Richard Gerald Jordan kidnapped and murdered Edwina Marter in a 1976 ransom plot. MS death row inmate rejected a flawed plea deal that could have spared execution. Prosecutor Joe Sam Owen maintains ...

Death penalty opponents are holding vigils to protest the upcoming execution of Richard Jordan in Mississippi. Jordan was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Edwina Marter in 1976. He has been on ...

Did Richard Jordan commit murder because of post-traumatic stress disorder from three combat tours in the Vietnam War? Or is he simply a cold-blooded killer? That question is at the heart of Jordan's ...

Death penalty opponents are urging Gov. Tate Reeves Tuesday to stop the execution of Mississippi Army veteran Richard Jordan with a protest. Jordan has spent almost half a century on death row. The 80 ...

The execution of Mississippi prisoner Richard Jordan went ahead as planned, starting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 25. By 6:16 p.m. the process was complete and Jordan was dead. The execution was allowed ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi's oldest and longest-serving death row inmate, faces execution on June 25th. Jordan's attorneys are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of execution, ...

Forty-nine years after his conviction in the kidnapping and execution-style murder of a Gulfport banker’s wife, Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate, Richard Gerald Jordan, died by lethal ...