Richard Jordan requests clemency

The man currently on death row for killing a Gulfport banker’s wife back in 1976 is now seeking clemency from Governor Tate Reeves.

Richard Jordan is scheduled to be executed on June 25 and in an effort to seek clemency, the Mississippi Office of Capital Post Conviction Counsel released a video on YouTube in which Jordan shares his story and asks the state not to execute him.

In the video, Jordan, along with his family members, experts and even Bishop Kopacz from the Catholic Diocese of Jackson, speak highly of his character and point to possible PTSD from Jordan’s service in the Vietnam War, which they claim may have played a part in his actions.