Vietnam veteran executed in Mississippi after nearly 50 years on death row for 1976 murder

A Mississippi man who had been connected decease enactment for astir 5 decades for the execution of the woman of a slope indebtedness serviceman successful a ransom strategy was executed Wednesday. 

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam seasoned with PTSD, received a lethal injection astatine the Mississippi State Penitentiary successful Parchman. 

The U.S. Supreme Court denied Jordan's remaining appeals Wednesday day without comment, and Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves had denied Jordan's petition for clemency. 

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Richard Jordan, 79, was enactment to decease successful Mississippi Wednesday for the 1976 execution of a slope indebtedness officer's woman successful a ransom scheme.  (AP)

Jordan visited with family, lawyers and spiritual advisers Wednesday, said Marc McClure, Mississippi State Penitentiary superintendent.

Jordan was sentenced to decease successful 1976 for kidnapping and sidesplitting Edwina Marter, a parent of 2 young children, earlier that year. He is 1 of 22 radical crossed the state sentenced for crimes successful the 1970s who are inactive connected decease row, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Eric Marter, who was 11 erstwhile his parent was killed, said neither he, his member nor his begetter would be the execution.

"It should person happened a agelong clip ago," helium said of the execution. "I’m not truly funny successful giving him the payment of the doubt."

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The entranceway to the Mississippi State Penitentiary successful Parchman. (Mississippi Department of Corrections)

In January 1976, Jordan called the Gulf National Bank successful Gulfport and asked to talk with a indebtedness officer. After helium was told Charles Marter could talk to him, helium hung up. 

He past looked up the Marters’ location code successful a telephone publication and kidnapped Edwina Marter. Jordan took her to a wood and fatally changeable her earlier calling her husband. 

He claimed Marter was harmless and demanded $25,000. The roadworthy to Jordan's execution included 4 trials and galore appeals. 

Lawyers for Jordan, who served 3 tours successful Vietnam, argued helium ne'er received owed process. 

An execution enclosure successful a Texas prison.  (AP)

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"He was ne'er fixed what, for a agelong time, the instrumentality has entitled him to, which is simply a intelligence wellness nonrecreational that is autarkic of the prosecution and tin assistance his defense," said Krissy Nobile, the manager of Mississippi’s Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, who represented Jordan. 

"Because of that, his assemblage ne'er got to perceive astir his Vietnam experiences."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.