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Attorneys file last-minute appeal days before Richard Jordan’s execution date
Richard Gerald Jordan is slated to be executed on June 25, nearly 50 years after he killed Harrison County women Edwina ...
Judge rules execution of state’s oldest death row inmate can proceed. But there’s a condition
Jordan, at 79, is the oldest prisoner on Mississippi’s death row. He was sentenced to death in 1977 for the 1976 kidnapping ...
Richard Jordan lawyers file new petition to stop MS execution, hopes Supreme Court will hear in time
Days away from a scheduled execution, the Richard Jordan legal team has filed new petitions in the hope that the U.S. Supreme Court will grant a stay of execution.
Judge rules state can proceed with Richard Gerald Jordan’s execution
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A federal judge says the execution of Mississippi’s longest death row inmate can move forward, but ...