Mississippi asks court to set execution for man on death row since 1976

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Mississippi asks court to set ********** for man on ****** row since 1976

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi attorney general on Tuesday requested an ********** date for the state’s longest-serving

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inmate.

Richard Gerald Jordan, now 78, was sentenced to ****** in 1976 for the kidnapping and ******** of Edwina Marter earlier that year in Harrison County.

The Mississippi Supreme Court rejected Jordan’s latest appeal Tuesday, and Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed papers hours later asking the court to set a date for the lethal injection.

“Jordan’s state and federal remedies have been exhausted,” Special Assistant Attorney General Allison Kay Hartman wrote on behalf of Fitch.

However, Krissy Nobile, Jordan’s attorney and director of the Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, told The Associated Press that she thinks state justices erred in not applying a 2017 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that dealt with independent mental health experts in ****** penalty cases.

“We are exploring all federal and state options for Mr. Jordan and will be moving for rehearing in the Mississippi Supreme Court,” Nobile said.

Mississippi Supreme Court records show that in January 1976, Jordan traveled from Louisiana to Gulfport, Mississippi, where he called Gulf National Bank and asked to speak to a loan officer. After he was told Charles Marter could speak with him, Jordan ended the call, looked up Marter’s home address in a telephone book, went to the house and got in by pretending to work for the electric company.

Records show Jordan kidnapped Edwina Marter, took her to a forest and shot her to ******, then later called her husband, falsely said she was safe and demanded $25,000.

Jordan has filed multiple appeals of his ****** sentence. The one denied Tuesday was filed in December 2022. It argued Jordan was denied due process because he should have had a psychiatric examiner appointed solely for his defense rather than a court-appointed psychiatric examiner who provided findings to both the prosecution and his defense.

Mississippi justices said Jordan’s attorneys had raised the issue in his previous appeals, and that a federal judge ruled having one court-appointed expert did not violate Jordan’s constitutional rights.

Jordan is one of the ****** row inmates who challenged the state’s plan to

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as one of the three drugs to carry out executions. The other drugs were vecuronium bromide, which paralyzes muscles, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.

U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate has not issued a final decision in the ********** drugs case, according to court records. But Wingate ruled in December 2022 that he would not block the state from

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, one of the inmates who was suing the state over the drugs. Loden was put to ****** a week later, and that was the

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