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re: In just under 2 hours a man will die.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 4:53 pm to 0x15E
Posted on 6/25/25 at 4:53 pm to 0x15E
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Noted, right up there on the OT dead horse hall of fame:
Other men’s (lack of) fashion
Hazards in the rain
Female pedo teachers
The “loop”
People who eat too many calories
Woke ideology subconsciously pumped into our brains by left-leaning media outlets.
Tattoos......don't forget tattoos.
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Posted on 6/25/25 at 4:57 pm to Spankum
Trying to use ptsd as the reason he killed a young woman in cold blood is despicable.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 4:57 pm to Drank
Richard Jordan's lengthy legal battle...
Richard Gerald Jordan kidnapped Edwina Marter in January 1976 from her home in Gulfport and later shot her to death in a wooded area in north Harrison County. After her death, he tried to collect a $25,000 ransom. He was arrested and led police to her body.
The 79-year-old was first convicted in 1976 and received a mandatory death sentence per state law at the time. The conviction and sentence were vacated because an automatic death sentence was deemed unconstitutional following a 1972 national moratorium on death sentences.
He was retried in 1977 after the moratorium was lifted, and he was sentenced to death a second time. Jordan continued to contest his sentence, which was vacated in 1983 in a federal appellate court. He was sentenced to death a third time later that year, and in 1986 it was vacated again, this time by the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 1991, in an attempt to circumvent seeking a fourth death sentence, Jordan was offered a plea agreement where he would plead guilty to the murder in exchange for a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. That turned out to be an invalid agreement under state law at the time.
Jordan challenged that sentence after learning it wasn't valid, hoping to get a life sentence with the possibility of parole, but after a subsequent sentencing hearing, he was sentenced to death for a fourth time in 1998. The law at the time of Jordan's first conviction allowed for life with parole or death as the only two sentencing options. With the end of the moratorium and reinstatement of the death penalty, it was a legitimate sentence once again. "In total, forty-eight different jurors in four separate trials have sentenced Jordan to death," Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Randolph wrote in the court's opinion.
The legal battles continued. In 2015, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Jordan. Instead of giving up, Jordan pursued another legal path and with fellow death row prisoner Ricky Chase challenged Mississippi's lethal injection protocol. The case was joined by a third man on death row, Thomas Loden Jr. Two more death row prisoners were added to the case: Robert Simon Jr. and Roger Thorson. Loden was executed in 2022.
Then-Attorney General Jim Hood in July 2015 asked the state to set an execution date for Jordan.
The 2015 challenge was not successful, but U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate in August 2015 ordered all executions in Mississippi to be temporarily halted.
When the state changed to a different chemical compound for executions in 2016, Jordan attempted to challenge that as well. This challenge again was unsuccessful, the Mississippi Supreme Court determined in 2018 and the ongoing challenge to the lethal injection drugs in federal court was put on hold.
In the meantime, state law was amended to include a number of methods for execution, so death by lethal injection is not the sole option at the discretion of the Department of Corrections commissioner.
In 2022, Jordan filed a third successor petition for post-conviction relief, which was denied on Oct. 1, 2024. Hours later, the attorney general's office asked for his execution date to be set.
More legal challenges ensued, but Attorney General Lynn Fitch in May 2025 said Jordan's legal options have run out. She asked the state to set Jordan's execution date.
The Mississippi Supreme Court agreed, and set Jordan's execution for 6 p.m. on June 25, 2025, at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.
Jordan's legal team has filed two petitions with the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of the court granting Jordan an emergency stay. One of the petitions was denied on Monday, June 23.
Jordan also filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in the execution drug case, but Wingate ruled in favor of the state, saying the execution could proceed, but must be halted if Jordan responds to a consciousness check after the first of the three-drug protocol is administered. An appeal is currently pending in this case in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Richard Gerald Jordan kidnapped Edwina Marter in January 1976 from her home in Gulfport and later shot her to death in a wooded area in north Harrison County. After her death, he tried to collect a $25,000 ransom. He was arrested and led police to her body.
The 79-year-old was first convicted in 1976 and received a mandatory death sentence per state law at the time. The conviction and sentence were vacated because an automatic death sentence was deemed unconstitutional following a 1972 national moratorium on death sentences.
He was retried in 1977 after the moratorium was lifted, and he was sentenced to death a second time. Jordan continued to contest his sentence, which was vacated in 1983 in a federal appellate court. He was sentenced to death a third time later that year, and in 1986 it was vacated again, this time by the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 1991, in an attempt to circumvent seeking a fourth death sentence, Jordan was offered a plea agreement where he would plead guilty to the murder in exchange for a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. That turned out to be an invalid agreement under state law at the time.
Jordan challenged that sentence after learning it wasn't valid, hoping to get a life sentence with the possibility of parole, but after a subsequent sentencing hearing, he was sentenced to death for a fourth time in 1998. The law at the time of Jordan's first conviction allowed for life with parole or death as the only two sentencing options. With the end of the moratorium and reinstatement of the death penalty, it was a legitimate sentence once again. "In total, forty-eight different jurors in four separate trials have sentenced Jordan to death," Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Randolph wrote in the court's opinion.
The legal battles continued. In 2015, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Jordan. Instead of giving up, Jordan pursued another legal path and with fellow death row prisoner Ricky Chase challenged Mississippi's lethal injection protocol. The case was joined by a third man on death row, Thomas Loden Jr. Two more death row prisoners were added to the case: Robert Simon Jr. and Roger Thorson. Loden was executed in 2022.
Then-Attorney General Jim Hood in July 2015 asked the state to set an execution date for Jordan.
The 2015 challenge was not successful, but U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate in August 2015 ordered all executions in Mississippi to be temporarily halted.
When the state changed to a different chemical compound for executions in 2016, Jordan attempted to challenge that as well. This challenge again was unsuccessful, the Mississippi Supreme Court determined in 2018 and the ongoing challenge to the lethal injection drugs in federal court was put on hold.
In the meantime, state law was amended to include a number of methods for execution, so death by lethal injection is not the sole option at the discretion of the Department of Corrections commissioner.
In 2022, Jordan filed a third successor petition for post-conviction relief, which was denied on Oct. 1, 2024. Hours later, the attorney general's office asked for his execution date to be set.
More legal challenges ensued, but Attorney General Lynn Fitch in May 2025 said Jordan's legal options have run out. She asked the state to set Jordan's execution date.
The Mississippi Supreme Court agreed, and set Jordan's execution for 6 p.m. on June 25, 2025, at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.
Jordan's legal team has filed two petitions with the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of the court granting Jordan an emergency stay. One of the petitions was denied on Monday, June 23.
Jordan also filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in the execution drug case, but Wingate ruled in favor of the state, saying the execution could proceed, but must be halted if Jordan responds to a consciousness check after the first of the three-drug protocol is administered. An appeal is currently pending in this case in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 4:58 pm to Mr Roboto
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Cruel and unusual
No.
If they gave him Raising Cane's, that would be cruel and unusual punishment.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:03 pm to Lsutigerturner
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Eye for an eye will really get some of these guys heads on right and understand actions have consequences
Except that threat of punishment has never seemed to have any impact on criminal activity. It turns out, criminals are mostly stupid and think they'll never get caught.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:04 pm to Spankum
quote:what a joke
He has been on death row since 1976
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:05 pm to Woodlands Tigah
He's been sentenced to death four damn times. Nobody can say he didn't have his day in court.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:06 pm to Spankum
That actually sounds like the perfect sentence for a convicted murderer.
Have to spend the rest of your natural life on death row, and then right before you die be put to death.
It would be better if the method of death was commensurate with the method of the murder.
Have to spend the rest of your natural life on death row, and then right before you die be put to death.
It would be better if the method of death was commensurate with the method of the murder.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:07 pm to Spankum
Much like the guy executed in Louisiana a few months ago, the victim's family, if they are still alive, probably is indifferent about him being executed by this point it's been so long ago.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:10 pm to Spankum
Dude was convicted 2 months before I was born. It's ridiculous how long death row inmates are allowed to prolong their sentences with the appeals. frick em! There needs to be a set time period where appeals need to be wrapped up or that's it... Flip the switch!
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:11 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Some of your guys fetish for this shite is really disturbing
Disturbing that it took this long.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:12 pm to Spankum
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He has been on death row since 1976
Ridiculous. Might as well "put him to death" by old age.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:13 pm to wallowinit
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Have to spend the rest of your natural life on death row, and then right before you die be put to death.
Then as a final head fake, give him his meal but put poison in it.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:16 pm to Lsutigerturner
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Eye for an eye will really get some of these guys heads on right and understand actions have consequences
Only if the conviction is allowed 1 appeal and if still found guilty they will be in the chair within 5 days. No dragging this out for 50 years
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:21 pm to Woodlands Tigah
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"In total, forty-eight different jurors in four separate trials have sentenced Jordan to death," Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Randolph wrote in the court's opinion.
Insane.
Should have one appeal and be put down shortly after if the original sentence still stands after that appeal. So much wasted time and money on a fricking murderer.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:23 pm to IAmNERD
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So much wasted time and money on a fricking murderer.
Agree
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:26 pm to Mr Roboto
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Cruel and unusual. Not your job to play God. Abolish the death penalty!
He played God for the innocent young woman he killed....He got 50 pampered years to be fed and housed at our expense after...what's your point, bleeding heart liberal?
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:28 pm to Mr Roboto
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Cruel and unusual. Not your job to play God. Abolish the death penalty!
It is cruel and unusual. What’s not cruel and unusual about being told you will be executed for decades.
Stop it or speed it up.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:29 pm to Mr Roboto
quote:some of us are His kids so it is our job. are you his child? have you accepted Christ?
Cruel and unusual. Not your job to play God.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 5:30 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Some of your guys fetish for this shite is really disturbing
Do you not approve of justice being dispensed?
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