In the United States, a 79-year-old was executed in the death wing after almost 50 years. The Vietnam veteran Richard Jordan received a poison injection in a prison in the state of Mississippi (local time) on Wednesday. He was convicted of murder in the wife of a bank employee in 1976.
Jordan had abducted Edwina Marter from her house and asked for $ 25,000 ransom for her release. The shipyard employee went online when he wanted to raise the money.
He confessed the murder of marten and led the researchers to their bodies in a forest with shot wounds.
The 25th death candidate this year
Jordan is already the 25th candidate for death executed in the US this year. There had been so many executions in the past year. Seven people were executed alone in the state of Florida in 2025. It was only on Tuesday (local time) that a 51-year-old in Florida was executed by poison injection, who had killed a woman.
US President Donald Trump is in favor of the death penalty. At the start of his second term, he had asked for an extension of the capital penalty “for the most horrible crimes”. The death penalty is forbidden in 23 of the 50 US states, three more have suspended enforcement.
Source: Krone
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