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

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

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

Those executed included Thomas Gudinas, whose mental illness was shaped by his abusive upbringing and neglect, and Richard Jordan, who suffered from PTSD after three combat tours in Vietnam.

A man who spent decades on death row was executed yesterday after kidnapping and killing a banker’s wife in the 1970s.

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

Richard Jordan's execution in Mississippi will proceed at 6 p.m. after last-minute efforts to convince the U.S. Supreme Court ...

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

Another Vietnam veteran, Herbert Richardson, was executed in Alabama in 1989, and was depicted in the 2019 film "Just Mercy." Amanda Lee Myers is a senior crime reporter for USA TODAY. Follow her ...

Vietnam will remove the death penalty for eight offences from next month, including embezzlement and activities aimed at ...

First I would like to thank everyone for a humane way of doing this. I want to apologize to the victim’s family.” ...