Mississippi executes Vietnam vet, longest-held death row inmate, for 1976 murder
Mississippi carried out the execution of Richard Gerald Jordan on Wednesday, nearly 50 years after he was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Edwina Marter. Jordan, 79, was the United States’ longest-serving death row inmate. He died by lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman at 6:16 PM. Jordan, a Vietnam War veteran who…