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PARCHMAN- Convicted killer Richard Jordan was executed by lethal injection today at the Mississippi State Penitentiary.
The execution procedures began at 6 p.m., and Jordan, 79, was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m. CDT. The Mississippi Department of Corrections carried out the order of the Mississippi Supreme Court issued on May 1, 2025. The execution occurred after several appeals from Jordan’s attorneys, including to the Fifth Circuit Court and the U.S. Supreme Court, were denied.
Jordan, #30990, was sentenced to death four times in Jackson County Circuit Court for the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, 35, in Gulfport, Miss. Jordan was first sentenced in 1976, followed by 1977, 1983, and 1998.
Marter, a married mother of two, was home with her three-year-old son when Jordan, posing as an electrical repairman, kidnapped her at gunpoint on January 13, 1976.
Jordan was the state’s longest-serving and oldest death row inmate when executed.
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