Vietnam veteran executed in Mississippi after nearly 50 years on death row for 1976 murder
A Mississippi man who had been on death row for nearly five decades for the murder of the wife of a bank loan officer in a ransom scheme was executed Wednesday. Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with PTSD, received a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. The U.S. Supreme Court denied Jordan's remaining appeals Wednesday afternoon without comment, and Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves had denied Jordan's request […]