Jordan's execution came decades after he kidnapped and killed 35-year-old Edwina Marter, who was shot in the back of the head ...

Richard Jordan's execution in Mississippi will proceed at 6 p.m. after last-minute efforts to convince the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

Jordan was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and killing a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom scheme.

Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest serving and oldest death row inmate, died by lethal injection Wednesday evening at the ...

Richard Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi on Wednesday, 49 years after he kidnapped and killed Edwina Marter, a stay-at-home mother of two.

The Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel made a video sharing Richard Jordan's story in hopes of explaining ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Parchman.

The family of Edwina Marter issued two statements Wednesday following the execution of Richard Jordan, who was convicted of ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Parchman. ... Jordan was a veteran of Vietnam War.

Crime Vietnam veteran executed in Mississippi after nearly 50 years on death row for 1976 murder Richard Jordan, 79, killed young mother Edwina Marter in a 1976 ransom plot targeting bank officer ...