Mississippi prisoner Richard Jordan is scheduled to appear at the Thad Cochran United States Courthouse on Saturday. Jordan is currently the state's oldest and longest-serving death row inmate ...

Mississippi executes Vietnam veteran Richard Jordan for murder of stay-at-home mom of 2 Jordan's execution came nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed 35-year-old Edwina Marter, who was ...

Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder ...

Thank you." Sheila O'Flaherty, who said she has come out for every execution in Mississippi since 1983, poses for a photo after protesting the execution of Richard Jordan on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.

PARCHMAN, Miss. — Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death-row inmate, requested chicken tenders, fries, strawberry ice cream and a root beer float for his last meal ahead of his ...

It's been nearly 50 years since Eric Marter's mother, Edwina Marter, was kidnapped from the family home in Gulfport, Mississippi, and murdered by Richard Jordan. Jordan is scheduled to be executed ...

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 ...

Richard Jordan, the longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, was executed Wednesday night at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. Photo by Mississippi Department of ...

Mississippi has executed a Vietnam combat veteran for murdering a stay-at-home mother of two sons in a failed attempt to flee with ransom money. Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's oldest death row ...