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 ...

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 ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's oldest death row inmate at 79, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, June 25, and pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m. local time.

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 Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme Court, was sentenced to death in 1976 ...

The Brief Richard Gerald Jordan was executed on Wednesday for the murder of a woman in 1976. The 79-year-old was a Vietnam veteran and was the third person executed in Mississippi in the last decade.

NEED TO KNOW Richard Jordan was executed in Mississippi on June 25 for the 1976 murder and kidnapping of Edwina Marter Jordan, 79, was the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row ...

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 ...