Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, executed after nearly five decades for kidnapping and murder.

Richard Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi on Wednesday, 49 years after he kidnapped and killed Edwina Marter, a stay-at-home mother of two.

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.