Jordan, at 79, is the oldest prisoner on Mississippi's death row. He was sentenced to death in 1977 for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, a Gulfport bank executive's wife.

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 ...

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 ...

HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - On Thursday, the Mississippi Supreme Court denied Richard Gerald Jordan’s motion for rehearing on the order setting his execution date. Jordan, Mississippi’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.

Fitch filed the motion to set an execution date for 78-year-old Richard Gerald Jordan on Tuesday, after Jordan was denied an appeal from the state's high court. Jordan was convicted in the 1976 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a stay of execution fo r Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate, convicted in the execution-style slaying of a Gulfport ...

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 ...