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Mississippi set to execute the state’s longest-serving death row inmate

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Richard Gerald Jordan , 79 , is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.

Jordan was sentenced to death in 1976 for killing and kidnapping Edwina Marter , a mother of two young children.

Jordan is one of 22 people across the country sentenced for crimes in the 1970s who are still on death row.

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