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| Attorney general seeks execution date for death row inmate |
| By sfchronicle.com- Jack Elliott Jr. |
| Published: 07/29/2015 |
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The state of Mississippi wants to execute Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest serving inmate on death row, on or before Aug. 27. The Mississippi Supreme Court will have the last say. In a motion filed Tuesday, Attorney General Jim Hood told the justices Jordan has exhausted all his legal remedies. Jordan was convicted of capital murder committed in the course of kidnapping Edwina Marta in Harrison County in 1976. Now 68, Jordan is the oldest inmate on Mississippi's death row, having won three successful appeals only to be resentenced to death. He's also the longest serving, having spent 38 years in death row. Read More. |
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