He is also the state’s longest-serving death row prisoner. Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate. Wingate set an emergency hearing on June 14 and ordered Jordan to be ...

Mississippi on Wednesday (Jun 25) executed a man who spent nearly 50 years on death row. The inmate, identified as 79-year-old Richard Jordan, was executed by lethal injection and was one of the ...

Carl Wayne Buntion, Texas' oldest executed inmate, spent 31 years on death row for killing a Houston officer, highlighting ...

Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving and oldest death row inmate, was put to death by lethal injection.

Condemned killer Richard Gerald Jordan had a shot at living without the fear of execution, but the prosecuting attorney says Jordan’s own greed got in the way. “You know, he had his day in ...

Jordan was the state's longest-serving and oldest death row inmate when executed. This comes after the United States Supreme Court denied an application for stay of execution earlier today. Orders ...

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 ...

Where is the death penalty legal? The District of Columbia and 23 states have abolished court-ordered executions, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Jordan, convicted of a 1976 kidnapping and murder, is the oldest and longest-serving Mississippi death row inmate.

The court had earlier vacated Darrell Robinson's conviction and death sentence in a brutal quadruple murder in Rapides Parish but reversed itself in December. The court ruled Friday to keep ...

It is unclear when the U.S. Supreme Court will issue a ruling on the matter. Jordan is the oldest and longest-serving prisoner, having been on Mississippi's death row for 48 years.