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While Pizzuto's appeal was still ongoing, another death row inmate, serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech (who was imprisoned since 1974), was originally set to be the first person executed in Idaho since 2012, but his execution on February 28, 2024, failed due to the medical team being unable to find a vein and failing to administer the drugs ...
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]
A man on Mississippi's death row who confessed to murder but not to the rape of a woman in 1998 may have been coerced by police, one expert says.
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.
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
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.
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.
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