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

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

After four trials, 79-year-old Richard Gerald Jordan was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter, a ...

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.

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

The Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel made a video sharing Richard Jordan's story in hopes of explaining why he should not be executed.

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

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.

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

Richard Jordan's execution in Mississippi on Wednesday can proceed, a federal appellate court ruled in upholding a ruling allowing lethal injection.

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.