Richard Gerald Jordan, aged 79, was executed by lethal injection in Mississippi after spending nearly 50 years on death row for the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter in 1976.
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The eyes of the world will soon be on an Alabama prisoner who has sat on death row for almost 35 years.
Jedidiah Murphy, 48, was given a lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary’s Huntsville Unit on Tuesday night.
The former boxer says he is innocent and only confessed to murder because of a brutal police interrogation .