Mississippi executes Richard Gerald Jordan

Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest-serving man on United States — Mississippi's death row, was executed by lethal injection for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter. Jordan, a Vietnam veteran with PTSD, had his final appeals denied by the United States — Supreme Court of the United States. His execution marks the third in United States — Mississippi in the last 10 years and comes amidst an overall increase in capital punishment in the United States. Petitions for clemency, citing his war trauma, were denied by United States — Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves. The victim's family expressed that the execution was long overdue.