Jordan, at 79, is the oldest prisoner on Mississippi's death row. He was sentenced to death in 1977 for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, a Gulfport bank executive's wife.

The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the ...

At least seven death row cases have been overturned due to inadequate representation or malicious prosecution. Mississippi has executed 372 people since becoming a state, with 23 executions ...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied an appeal of U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate’s decision to allow Jordan’s ...