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Mississippi executes longest-serving man on death row
Parchman MS. Richard Jordan, 79, Vietnam veteran with PTSD, was executed by lethal injection for kidnapping and killing Edwina Marter in 1976 in Gulfport. Final statements praised humane method, family upheld, and the case highlighted debates over three-drug protocols and PTSD in capital punishment. Jordan’s execution marks Mississippi’s third in a decade, following appeals and Supreme Court actions.
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