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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Mississippi since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. Since 1976, 23 people convicted of capital murder have been executed by the state of Mississippi. Of the 23 people executed, 4 were executed via gas chamber and 19 via lethal injection. [1]
Richard Gerald Jordan (born May 25, 1946 [1]) is an American man on death row in Mississippi for the 1976 murder of 34-year-old Edwina Marter, the wife of a bank executive. . As of 2022, Jordan is the state's oldest and longest-serving death row inma
The $41 million Unit 32, the state's designated location for male death row inmates, opened in August 1990. [5] [15] Previously Unit 17 housed MSP's male death row. [16] On March 18, 1998 the legislature made another amendment, removing the gas chamber as a method of execution. [13] The lethal injection table was first used in 2002. [9]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously denied the latest appeal from a man who has been on the state's death row longer than any other inmate. Richard Gerald Jordan, now 78, was sentenced to death in 1976 for the kidnapping and killing of Edwina Marter earlier that year in Harrison County.
The Mississippi Supreme Court has affirmed the convictions and death sentences of a man in the killings of eight people, including his mother-in-law and a deputy sheriff, at three different crime ...
A Mississippi man who has been on death row for nearly 30 years says the attorney general's quest for an execution date is premature.
Male death row inmates transferred from county jails immediately are sent to the Mississippi State Penitentiary, the location of the male death row. [20] Each prisoner receives a security classification. The classifications are: [16] Minimum (Community) Minimum (Non-Community) Medium; Close; Death Row
In January, the court overturned a precedent set in 2013 in another death row case in which a man was denied relief, also for ineffective assistance of counsel in post-conviction proceedings.