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 ...

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 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. Jordan ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death row prisoner, made a last-minute appeal ahead of his scheduled execution. Jordan filed a certiorari petition with the ...

Forty-nine years after his conviction in the kidnapping and execution-style murder of a Gulfport banker’s wife, Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate, Richard Gerald Jordan, died by lethal ...

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.

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Mississippi Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Richard Gerald Jordan. (Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP, File) (Uncredited) JACKSON, ...