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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Jordan's emergency stay of execution request on June 18. Jordan's execution is scheduled for June 25 if the stay is not granted. Death penalty opponents are ...

Richard Jordan, convicted of kidnapping and murdering Edwina Marter nearly 50 years ago, is scheduled for execution. Eric Marter reflects on how his life would have been different if his mother had ...

Richard Jordan was executed on June 25 for the murder and kidnapping of Edwina Marter 49 years ago Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and ...

Mississippi (AP) — The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom scheme.

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Legal options appear to be running out for Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate, Richard Gerald Jordan. On Tuesday, June 24, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied ...

Nearly five decades after being convicted of kidnapping and murder, the longest-serving man on Mississippi's death row was executed Wednesday by lethal injection. “I will see you on the other side, ...