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Inside a Mississippi execution: Clarion Ledger reporter recounts what it was like
A Clarion Ledger reporter recounts what it was like to witness Mississippi’s execution of Richard Jordan, who spent nearly 50 ...
Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state’s death row for 1976 killing
Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.
Vietnam veteran executed in Mississippi after nearly 50 years on death row for 1976 murder
After four trials, 79-year-old Richard Gerald Jordan was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter, a ...
Mississippi executes man on death row for nearly 50 years
The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the ...
Mississippi’s death row: A look at the 37 inmates, and the crimes they committed
Mississippi has 37 death row inmates and all but one are men. Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, is the longest-serving death row ...
Mississippi executes inmate who’s been on death row almost half a century
Mississippi has executed Richard Gerald Jordan, the state’s longest-serving death row inmate.Jordan, 79, was put to death by ...
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Mississippi executes state's longest-serving death row inmate: What we know
The Associated Press reported that Richard Gerald Jordan is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State ...
Mississippi executes man who has been on death row for nearly 50 years
The convicted murderer, a Vietnam War veteran, was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and murdering the wife of a bank ...
Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976
Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976.
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Mississippi man who spent nearly 50 years on Death Row executed
A Mississippi man who had been on Death Row for nearly 50 years was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, one of two ...
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Mississippi executes longest-serving man on state's death row - NPR
PARCHMAN, Miss. — The longest-serving man on Mississippi's death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom ...
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Mississippi executes the state’s longest-serving death row inmate | CNN
The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom scheme.