In the correctional facility in Parchman, Mississippi, in the United States, the death sentence was carried out for 79-year-old Richard Jordan, found guilty of the murder that occurred in 1976. About this reportedAssociated Press agency.
Richard Gerald Jordan, a Vietnam War veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, was sentenced to death for the murder and kidnapping of Edwina Marter. His latest appeals were rejected by the US Supreme Court without explanation. The sentence was carried out by lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.
According to the employees of the institution, the execution procedure began at 18:00. Jordan lay on the gurney with his mouth slightly open and took a few deep breaths before he froze. The official time of death was recorded at 18:16. Jordan was among several inmates on Mississippi’s death row who filed a lawsuit against the state, alleging that the use of the three drugs during executions is an inhumane method.
According to state Supreme Court filings, in January 1976, Jordan called the Gulf National Bank in Gulfport and asked to be connected with a loan officer. After learning that he could talk to Charles Marter, he hung up the phone, looked up the couple’s address in the phone book, and kidnapped Edwina Marter. Later, Jordan drove her to the woods, where he shot her, then called her husband, assured her she was alive, and demanded a $25,000 ransom.
Jordan’s execution was the third carried out in Mississippi in the past decade. The previous death sentence in this state was carried out in December 2022.
