Forty-nine years after his conviction in the kidnapping and execution-style murder of a Gulfport banker’s wife, Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate, Richard Gerald Jordan, died by lethal ...
FILE - This undated photo provided by the Mississippi Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Richard Gerald Jordan. (Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP, File) (Uncredited) JACKSON, ...
A man found guilty of murdering a bank loan officer’s wife in 1976 was executed in Mississippi on Wednesday evening. Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was executed by lethal injection. He was convicted of ...