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‘I watched innocent man die in Death Row gas chamber – his chilling last words still haunt me’
Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith represented dozens of inmates on Death Row and claims he watched an innocent man die - and that ...
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Judge orders new look at death sentence for man convicted of killing two restaurant workers in 1995
This is the third time Todd Kelvin Wessinger's death sentence was vacated and remanded back to state court for a new trial ...
Mississippi executes inmate after nearly 50 years. Is death penalty legal in PA, NJ?
Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?
Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state’s death row for 1976 killing
Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death.
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Death row spiritual adviser bears witness in execution chamber
The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...
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Mississippi executes state’s longest-serving death row inmate
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Mississippi executes man who has been on death row for nearly 50 years
The convicted murderer, a Vietnam War veteran, was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and murdering the wife of a bank ...
Mississippi executes Vietnam veteran Richard Jordan for murder of stay-at-home mom of 2
Jordan's execution came decades after he kidnapped and killed 35-year-old Edwina Marter, who was shot in the back of the head ...
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Chilling final words of Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate executed almost 50 years after crime
Richard Gerald Jordan has been put to death for the 1976 murder and kidnapping of Edwina Marter, a mom-of-two, nearly 50 ...
Mississippi executes its longest-tenured death row inmate
Nearly 50 years after the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter in Harrison County, Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed on Wednesday. A few showers and storms are moving across South ...