June 25 (UPI) -- The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.
Jordan, 79, was convicted and sentenced to death for the Jan. 12, 1976, kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter, who was a stay-at-home mother of two young sons.
Tonight's schedule execution would occur about six months short of Jordan's 50th year in prison, and his attorneys continue seeking a stay of his execution.
Jordan was a veteran of three combat tours in Vietnam, where he at times was a helicopter door gunner, earned several medals and an honorable discharge.
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