On Jan. 12, 1976, Edwina Marter was at home in Mississippi City with one of her two sons, 3-year-old Kevin, while her 10-year-old son Eric was in school, according to court records.

Richard Jordan's execution in Mississippi on Wednesday can proceed, a federal appellate court ruled in upholding a ruling allowing lethal injection.

Edwina Marter’s husband and two sons had not planned to attend the execution. Eric Marter, who was 11 when his mother was killed, said beforehand that other family members would attend.

Edwina Marter's kidnapping and murder. On Jan. 12, 1976, Edwina Marter was at home in Mississippi City with one of her two sons, 3-year-old Kevin, while her 10-year-old son Eric was in school ...

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

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was ... He then looked up the Marters’ home address in a telephone book and kidnapped Edwina Marter.

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, ... was sentenced to death in 1976 for killing and kidnapping Edwina Marter.

On Jan. 12, 1976, Edwina Marter was at home in Mississippi City with one of her two sons, 3-year-old Kevin, while her 10-year-old son Eric was in school, according to court records.

Mississippi Supreme Court records show that in January 1976, Jordan called the Gulf National Bank in Gulfport, Mississippi, and asked to speak with a loan officer. After he was told Charles Marter ...

Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder ...

It's been nearly 50 years since Eric Marter's mother, Edwina Marter, was kidnapped from the family home in Gulfport, Mississippi, and murdered by Richard Jordan. Jordan is scheduled to be executed ...

Edwina Marter, Owen said, ... Mississippi began using alternative drugs to carry out executions in the mid-2000s after the state had trouble obtaining pentobarbital, ...