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Mississippi sets an execution date for a man who’s been on death row since 1976
The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25.
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Mississippi sets June execution date for longest-serving death row inmate
In a ruling Thursday, the state’s high court said Jordan had exhausted all state and federal appeals and set the execution ...
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Execution date set for Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate
On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Mississippi set an execution date for Richard Gerald Jordan nearly 50 years after he murdered Edwina Marter in Harrison County.
Execution date set for Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate
Richard Jordan has been on death row in Mississippi since 1977 for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, the wife of a Gulfport bank executive.