Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate granted extension to file rehearing

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) – Since 1976, Richard Gerald Jordan has been on death row for the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, the wife of a Gulfport banker. Now, despite being denied an appeal on October 1, Jordan is being granted additional time to file for a rehearing. Following the…

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