The longest-serving inmate on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday evening—nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom scheme. Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, was sentenced to death in 1976 for the crime. Read his final words at
DailyMail.com.
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