Jordan's execution came decades after he kidnapped and killed 35-year-old Edwina Marter, who was shot in the back of the head ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

The family of Edwina Marter issued two statements Wednesday following the execution of Richard Jordan, who was convicted of ...

Richard Jordan's execution in Mississippi on Wednesday can proceed, a federal appellate court ruled in upholding a ruling ...

Richard Jordan's execution in Mississippi will proceed at 6 p.m. after last-minute efforts to convince the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Despite decades of attempted legal interference and motions filed to prevent it, Mississippi's longest-serving death row ...

Why Mississippi prisoner Richard Jordan sentenced to death four times, and why it took decades to set an execution date for a ...

Jordan was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and killing a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom scheme.

Richard Jordan, who has been on Death Row for nearly 50 years, is to be executed by lethal injection in Mississippi on ...

The Unites States Supreme Court did not give an explanation in saying would not hear the execution appeal of Richard Jordan ...

Mississippi death row inmate Richard Jordan will eat his last meal at 4 p.m. ahead of his execution Wednesday, June 25.