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

The convicted killer, 79-year-old Richard Jordan, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, June 25, at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison farm, according to the ...

Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death.

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

The convicted murderer, a Vietnam War veteran, was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and murdering the wife of a bank ...

After four trials, 79-year-old Richard Gerald Jordan was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter, a ...

Richard Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi on Wednesday, 49 years after he kidnapped and killed Edwina Marter, a ...

Once she did, Jordan took her and left her younger son unarmed. He had her drive to the DeSoto National Forest where he shot ...

After killing Edwina, Jordan called Charles Marter, told him that his wife was alive and well and that it would cost him $25,000 to get her back, court records say.

The state's longest-serving death row inmate, 79-year-old Richard Jordan, was executed by lethal injection for his crimes.

For those who have waited decades for the state to carry out the death sentence Jordan first received in 1976, Jordan’s execution is long overdue. Jordan was sentenced to death for the Jan. 11, 1976, ...

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