A Mississippi man, Richard Gerald Jordan, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter, the wife of a bank loan officer, in a ransom scheme. At 79, Jordan, a Vietnam veteran with PTSD, had spent nearly five decades on death row, with the U.S. Supreme Court denying his final appeals and Mississippi’s governor denying clemency.
Explain It To Me Like I’m 5: A 79-year-old man named Richard Jordan was executed in Mississippi for a crime he committed nearly 50 years ago, where he kidnapped and killed a woman to get money.
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