Mina Corpuz

California, Morocco

Justice Reporter at Mississippi Today

Covering the criminal justice system, legal issues & more @MSTodayNews | Fellow @NatPress #NPFWidening & LJJP. Tips/ideas: [email protected]

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Richard Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, set to be executed this evening - Magnolia State Live

3 days ago | magnoliastatelive.com | Mina Corpuz

Published 8:57 am Wednesday, June 25, 2025 by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi TodayJune 25, 2025Barring a last minute reprieve, the state of Mississippi is set to execute Richard Jordan this evening. Attorneys representing the 79-year-old, the state’s oldest and longest serving inmate on death row, filed a flurry of motions with the U.S. Supreme Court and the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals this week.
Richard Jordan set to be executed

3 days ago | mississippitoday.org | Mina Corpuz

Barring a last minute reprieve, the state of Mississippi is set to execute Richard Jordan this evening. Attorneys representing the 79-year-old, the state’s oldest and longest serving inmate on death row, filed a flurry of motions with the U.S. Supreme Court and the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals this week. As of today,the appeals court denied his request for stay, and the high court hads not responded to a request for stay.
Death penalty foes ask governor to stop execution

3 days ago | buff.ly | Simeon Gates |Mina Corpuz

Editor’s note: This story was updated Tuesday afternoon to reflect Gov. Tate Reeves’ statement. Gov. Tate Reeves says will not block the execution of Mississippi’s oldest and longest-serving inmate, which is set for Wednesday evening. Reeves said in a statement Tuesday that he rejected a clemency petition for Richard Jordan.
‘I don’t want him to get what he wants,’ says murder victim’s son of killer - Mississippi Today

5 days ago | mississippitoday.org | Mina Corpuz

Eric Marter doesn’t remember much about his mother but her loss is one his family has felt for decades. On Jan.13, 1976, he said it felt like any other day when he left for his Catholic school in Gulfport and his younger brother Kevin stayed home with their mother Edwina. Then he remembers he and his brother staying with family friends and being told his parents had to go out of town. Days later, his father and a priest told them their mother was dead.
Death row spiritual adviser bears witness in execution chamber

1 week ago | mississippitoday.org | Mina Corpuz

The Rev. Jeff Hood is “determined to let people know you’re killing my friend.”Those are the people he’s grown close to before witnessing their executions — a dozen so far and a number that continues to grow as Mississippi prepares to put 79-year-old Richard Jordan to death and the death penalty continues being handed down in over half of all states, particularly the South.
US Supreme Court may be death row inmate’s last chance to avoid execution

2 weeks ago | rawstory.com | Mina Corpuz

U.S. Supreme Court may be death row inmate’s last chance to avoid executionLess than two weeks from the scheduled execution of Richard Jordan, the Mississippi Supreme Court said it will not reconsider the death row inmate’s appeal, but the federal high court is expected to discuss his case next week. Jordan, at 79, the state’s oldest and longest-serving death row inmate, was first convicted in 1976 for kidnapping and killing Edwina Marter in Harrison County.
Lexington residents urge court to scrutinize police abuse claims

4 weeks ago | mississippitoday.org | Mina Corpuz

Lexington community members joined attorneys and the National Police Accountability Project to urge a federal appeals court to consider evidence in a civil rights lawsuit against the police department alleging a pattern of violent, racist and unconstitutional policing practices.
Advocates for death row inmates challenge 'fixation with snuffing them out'

1 month ago | mississippitoday.org | Mina Corpuz

Advocates who oppose the death penalty and are organizing to halt further executions in the state stood outside the Mississippi Supreme Court Wednesday to send a message to the justices and the attorney general: Stand down. They said Mississippi is headed down a deadly road with the scheduled June 25 execution of 79-year-old Richard Jordan, the state’s oldest and longest-serving death row inmate.
As MS execution closes in, Richard Jordan trying new ways to fight death

1 month ago | sunherald.com | Mina Corpuz

In the remaining weeks before his scheduled execution, Richard Jordan, Mississippi's oldest and longest serving death row inmate, is looking for ways to fight his death sentence. Jordan was sentenced to death for the kidnap and murder of Gulfport resident Edwina Marter in January 1976. Marter's sons, who were 3 and 9 at the time of her death, and her husband are still alive, according to public records.
As MS execution closes in, Richard Jordan trying new ways to fight death

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Mina Corpuz

In the remaining weeks before his scheduled execution, Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s oldest and longest serving death row inmate, is looking for ways to fight his death sentence. Jordan was sentenced to death for the kidnap and murder of Gulfport resident Edwina Marter in January 1976. Marter’s sons, who were 3 and 9 at the time of her death, and her husband are still alive, according to public records.