Mississippi executes man who has been on death row for nearly 50 years

A man found guilty of murdering a bank loan officer’s wife in 1976 was executed in Mississippi on Wednesday evening.

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was executed by lethal injection. He was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Edwina Marter as part of a ransom scheme to get tens of thousands of dollars from Charles Marter, a loan officer at Gulf National Bank in Gulfport, Mississippi, according to the Associated Press.