Mississippi set to execute state’s longest-serving death row inmate

Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate, is scheduled for execution on Wednesday for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter during a ransom scheme. Despite his claims of PTSD from Vietnam affecting his actions, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his clemency petition, and family members of the victim express a desire for justice, emphasizing the heinous nature of his crime.

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Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate, Richard Gerald Jordan, is set to be executed for a crime he committed nearly 50 years ago, where he kidnapped and harmed a woman for money.

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