Mississippi sets an execution date for a man who's been on death row since 1976

Execution Set - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on June 25, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

Richard Gerald Jordan, 78, who was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and killing a woman, has filed multiple death sentence appeals, the most recent of which was denied in October.