Mississippi Man Who Spent Nearly 50 Years on Death Row Executed

Longest-serving person on Mississippi’s death row executed

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old veteran, was sentenced to death in 1976 for killing a bank loan officer’s wifeThe longest-serving person 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.Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the US supre…

Mississippi Man Who Spent Nearly 50 Years On Death Row Executed

A Mississippi man who had been on Death Row for nearly 50 years was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, one of two executions in the United States this week.

Man executed on New Year's Day - witnessed by thousands

James Johnson was led by a priest from the condemned cell at Winchester Prison on New Year's Day to be hanged for the murder of two superiors.

Mississippi man who spent nearly 50 years on death row executed

A Mississippi man who had been on death row for nearly 50 years was executed by lethal injection today, one of two executions in the United States this week.

Richard Gerald Jordan: Man who was on death row in Mississippi for almost 50 years executed

Richard Gerald Jordan kidnapped Edwina Marter and shot her dead in a forest - before demanding a $25,000 ransom from her husband.

Longest-serving Miss. death row inmate Richard Gerald Jordan thankful for ‘humane’ execution

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 for killing and kidnapping Edwina Marter.