Richard Gerald Jordan, one of America's longest-serving death row inmates, was executed last night, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and murdered a bank loan officer's wife in a brutal ...

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 ...

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 on March 2, 1977. Jordan died strapped to a gurney with the IV in his veins.

Mississippi has executed Richard Gerald Jordan, the state’s longest-serving death row inmate. Jordan, 79, was put to death by lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman ...

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 ...

Mississippi executed Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's longest-serving death row inmate, nearly 50 years after he kidnapped and murdered Edwina Marter in a 1976 ransom scheme.

Richard Gerald Jordan kidnapped and killed Edwina Marter, a stay-at-home mother who was married to a banker, in a violent ransom scheme. The 79-year-old, a Vietnam War veteran who suffered from ...

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 ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, received a lethal injection ByMichael D. Carroll, Christopher Bucktin ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's oldest death row inmate at 79, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, June 25, and pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m. local time.