Mississippi executes longest-serving death row inmate Richard Jordan

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Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest-serving inmate on Mississippi's death row, was executed at age 79 for a 1976 kidnapping and murder, ending a decades-long legal process amid debates over mental health and justice.
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