Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?

IF JORDAN RECEIVES THE FIRST 500MG OF THE MEDICATION, THAT LEAVES HIM STILL CONSCIOUS Mississippi held a state-sanctioned execution Wednesday — its first since 2022.The state's longest-serving death ...

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

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

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

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A Mississippi man who had been on Death Row for nearly 50 years was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, one of two executions in the United States this week.

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...