A decade-old sentencing error has drawn a response from Mississippi’s highest office, leading to a decision Gov. Tate Reeves ...

Richard Jordan was executed on June 25 for the murder and kidnapping of Edwina Marter 49 years ago Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the U.S. Supreme Court, was sentenced to death in 1976 for ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom ...

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 ...

Nearly five decades after being convicted of kidnapping and murder, the longest-serving man on Mississippi's death row was executed Wednesday by lethal injection. “I will see you on the other side, ...

A Mississippi man who had been on death row for nearly five decades for the murder of the wife of a bank loan officer in a ransom scheme was executed Wednesday. Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old ...