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Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state’s death row for 1976 killing
- Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest-serving man on Mississippi's death row, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday at the Mississippi State Penitentiary.
- In 1976, Jordan received the death penalty for kidnapping and fatally shooting Edwina Marter during a violent ransom plot earlier that year.
- His defense did not include mental health experts, despite claims that his severe PTSD, stemming from three consecutive deployments during the Vietnam conflict, may have influenced his criminal behavior.
- Jordan thanked those present for a 'humane way of doing this' and said, 'I will see you on the other side, all of you,' in his final statement before execution.
- The execution marked Mississippi's third in ten years and highlighted ongoing debates over the state's lethal injection protocol and clemency petitions citing PTSD.
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Justice Served as 80 Year Old Man in Prison for 50 Years Put to Death
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At 18.16 this Wednesday (local time), Richard Jordan received a lethal injection in the Mississippi State Penitentiary that killed him. He was 79 years old. Of them, almost half a century had been spent on death row. Jordan, a Vietnam veteran, had been sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder in 1979 of a 34-year-old woman and was the longest-standing prisoner awaiting execution, according to information from the correctional department …
Richard Gerald Jordan, Vietnam War Veteran, was on death row in Mississippi for almost 50 years for the crime of a woman
He was the longest-serving death row inmate in the US state of Mississippi, but Richard Jordan (79) was finally executed on Wednesday after almost 50 years. The American was sentenced to death for kidnapping and murdering the wife of a bank employee.
Longest-serving death row inmate executed as he utters chilling final words
THE longest-serving death row inmate uttered a chilling set of last words with his dying breath. Richard Jordan, 79, spent almost five decades waiting to die – and was finally killed by lethal injection on Wednesday. AFPRichard Jordan, 79, was executed after almost five decades on death row[/caption] HandoutJordan kidnapped and murdered Edwina Marter after speaking to her husband on the phone[/caption] GettyJordan was strapped to a bed and admin…
(AFP) A man sentenced to death for a murder committed in 1976 and who spent almost half a century on death row was executed on Wednesday with lethal injection in Mississippi. Read more]]>
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