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.

The longest-serving inmate on Mississippi’s death row asked for forgiveness — and was thankful for the “humane” lethal injection that took his life Wednesday — before he eerily promised he would see ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - On Wednesday, June 25, Richard Gerald Jordan, who has been on death row at Parchman since 1976 for kidnapping and killing Edwina Marter, a Gulfport banker’s wife, is set to be ...

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 ...

Condemned killer Richard Gerald Jordan had a shot at living without the fear of execution, but the prosecuting attorney says Jordan’s own greed got in the way. “You know, he had his day in court,” ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. (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 ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. — 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.