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

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

The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

Richard Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi on Wednesday, 49 years after he kidnapped and killed Edwina Marter, a stay-at-home mother of two.

Eric Marter was a young child in school the day his mother was kidnapped and murdered. He talks about his mother, and the ...

Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest serving and oldest death row inmate, died by lethal injection Wednesday evening at the ...

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

Nearly 50 years after the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter in Harrison County, Richard Gerald Jordan was executed Wednesday evening.