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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. Explain It To Me Like I'm 5: Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate,...
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