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The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Jordan's emergency stay of execution request on June 18.

Jordan's execution is scheduled for June 25 if the stay is not granted.

Death penalty opponents are advocating for the Attorney General to halt the execution.

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, is on death row in Mississippi for a 1976 kidnapping and murder.

A 79-year-old man on Mississippi's death row won't know any time soon if the U.S. Supreme Court will grant him an emergency stay of execution .

Attorneys for Richard Gerald Jordan, who has been on death row since 1977 for kidnapping and murder, had hoped to get Jordan's case heard in the justices' May 29 conference.

The nation's highest court is now expected to discuss Jordan's case during its June 18 conference, according

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