Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mississippi has executed a Vietnam combat veteran for murdering a stay-at-home mother of two sons in a failed attempt to flee with ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. — Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death-row inmate, requested chicken tenders, fries, strawberry ice cream and a root beer float for his last meal ahead of his scheduled ...

Should Mississippi continue to use a three-part drug protocol to execute prisoners? That was one of the questions raised Saturday, June 14, at a hearing in federal court in Jackson. Richard Jordan, a ...

Richard Gerald Jordan kidnapped and murdered Edwina Marter in a 1976 ransom plot. MS death row inmate rejected a flawed plea deal that could have spared execution. Prosecutor Joe Sam Owen maintains ...

Mississippi death row inmate Richard Jordan's execution is scheduled for June 25th, amidst legal challenges to the state's three-drug protocol. Jordan's attorneys argue for the use of Pentobarbital, ...

Richard Gerald Jordan's appeal to halt his execution was denied by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The court upheld the previous ruling, stating Jordan didn't prove the three-drug lethal injection ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WLBT) - With just two days until his scheduled execution, Richard Gerald Jordan’s legal options appear to be running out. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition ...

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 ...

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 ...