Deaths in Custody
Executed

Richard L. Jordan

died November 22, 1958 · Arizona State Prison, Pinal County, Arizona

Richard L. Jordan was executed in the gas chamber at Arizona State Prison in Florence, Arizona, on November 22, 1958, a sentence the state carried out while he was held there. The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry lists the cause as execution in the gas chamber.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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