JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi attorney general on Tuesday requested an execution date for the state's longest-serving death row inmate. Richard Gerald Jordan, now 78, was sentenced to death in 1976 for the kidnapping and killing 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 death 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 kid.