Mississippi set to execute state’s longest-serving death row inmate
Jackson, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi’s The longest time serving death order is prisoner In a violent ransom plan, a bank loan will be carried out on Wednesday about five years after kidnapping and killing the wife of the officer.
Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79 -year -old Vietnam veteran who suffers from post -trauma stress disorder, is planned to receive a fatal injection in Mississippi State Prison in Parchman. One of the few people who Mississippi filed a case of the state during his death Three Drug Executive Protocolthey claim to be inhuman.
Jordan would be the third person who was executed in the state in the last 10 years; . Latest execution It was in December 2022.
The execution comes one day after a man in Florida is executed within a year within a year within a year. Most executives Since 2015.
In 1976, Jordan was sentenced to kill Edwina Marter, the mother of two little children at the beginning of that year and sentenced him to death for kidnapping. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, Jordan from the beginning of the year is one of the 22 people across the country, which was mahmented for crimes that were still during death in the 1970s.
Eric Marter, who was 11 years old when his mother was killed, said neither his brother nor his father would join the execution, but other family members would be there.
“It should have been a long time ago,” he said. “I’m not really interested in making him benefit the doubt.”
The records of the Supreme Court of Mississippi show that Jordan was looking for the Gulf National Bank in Mississippi, Mississippi, Mississippi, and wanted to speak to a credit officer. After Charles Marter was told that he could talk to him, he hung up. He then looked at Marters’ home address in a phone book and kidnapped Edwina Marter. According to the court records, Jordan took him to a forest and claimed that he was safe before calling his husband and demanded $ 25,000.
“It needs to be punished, Eci Eric Marter said.
The execution ends Jordan’s dozens of courts, which contain four cases and many appeals. On Monday, the US Supreme Court rejected a petition claiming that process rights were rejected.
“For a long time, the law has not been given to a mental health expert who can help defense,” said lawyer Kissy Nobile, the Capital Advisor Director of Capital, representing Jordan’s Jordan. “Therefore, his jury never heard his Vietnam experiences.”
Mississippi Gov. A recent petition to Tate Reeves obscenity He reiterated Nobile’s claim. Jordan argues that he has developed PTSB after offering three consecutive rounds that may be a factor in the Vietnam War.
Franklin Rosenblatt, President of the National Military Justice Institute, who wrote the petition on behalf of Jordan, said, “War service, war trauma was thought to be relevant to the murder hearing.” “We know how 10 years ago and definitely during Vietnam the effect of war trauma on the brain and how it affects ongoing behaviors.”
Eric Marter said he didn’t take this argument.
“I know what he was doing. He asked for money and couldn’t get him. And he – that’s why he did what he did.”
