Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder ...

Jordan's execution came decades after he kidnapped and killed 35-year-old Edwina Marter, who was shot in the back of the head ...

The family of Edwina Marter issued two statements Wednesday following the execution of Richard Jordan, who was convicted of ...

After four trials, 79-year-old Richard Gerald Jordan was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter, a ...

After killing Edwina, Jordan called Charles Marter, told him that his wife was alive and well and that it would cost him $25,000 to get her back, court records say.

Once she did, Jordan took her and left her younger son unarmed. He had her drive to the DeSoto National Forest where he shot ...

For those who have waited decades for the state to carry out the death sentence Jordan first received in 1976, Jordan’s execution is long overdue. Jordan was sentenced to death for the Jan. 11, 1976, ...

Richard Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi on Wednesday, 49 years after he kidnapped and killed Edwina Marter, a ...

First I would like to thank everyone for a humane way of doing this. I want to apologize to the victim’s family.” ...

The convicted murderer, a Vietnam War veteran, was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and murdering the wife of a bank ...

On Jan. 12, 1976, Edwina Marter was at home in Mississippi City with one of her two sons, 3-year-old Kevin, while her 10-year-old son Eric was in school, according to court records.

Edwina Marter's now 59-year-old son, Eric Marter, told USA TODAY that his family never bought Jordan's claims that he accidentally shot Edwina and they certainly aren't buying his arguments about ...