Jackson, Miss. (AP) – The oldest detainee of prisoners of the death of the Mississippi should be executed on June 25, ruled the Supreme Court of the State on Thursday.
Richard Gerald Jordan, 78 denied in October.
The Mississippi decision arrives the same day, the army fighting veteran Jeffrey Hutchinson, was to be executed in Florida. Before Thursday, 14 people had been executed in the United Statesincluding three in Florida.
The order did not specify the way in which Jordan will be executed. Mississippi law authorizes death sentences Lethal injection, lawn, electrocution or coat.
According to the files of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, Jordan kidnapped Edwina Marter in January 1976 and pulled him to death in a forest of the county of Harrison. He then called her husband, Charles Marter, falsely said that she was safe and asked $ 25,000.
The files show that before the murder, Jordan had traveled from Louisiana to Gulfport, Mississippi and called the Gulf National Bank, where Charles Marter worked as a loan agent. After he was told that Marter could speak to him, he hung up, searched for the welcome address of the Marrs and went to the house by pretending to be an electricity company.
“After having duly taken into account, the court concludes that Jordan has exhausted all the remedies of states and federals for the purpose of defining an execution,” said the decision.
The last execution of the Mississippi was in December 2022.
