Thomas Loden Jr was executed by the state through lethal injection protocol in Mississippi on 14th December 2022 on Wednesday, know about his wife
Thomas Loden Jr is the man who sexually assaulted and killed a teenage girl named Leesa Marie Gray in 2000. Thomas became the 2nd prisoner to be executed by the State in the past 10 years.
Leesa Gray was just a 16-year-old girl. Her mother Wanda Farris attended the execution. She stated, “She doesn’t want anyone to die but she has belief in justice as well as the death penalty.”
Who Is Thomas Loden Jr Executed In Mississippi For Raping Leesa Marie Gray, His Age, Wife, News
The execution of Thomas Edwin Loden, Jr is a necessary punishment. Leesa Gray’s family have suffered for the past 21 years awaiting justice and closure. It’s time anyone guilty of acting outside of the law are denied any “human rights” with punishment administered on conviction.
— Nigel Thorp (@Nigel110662) December 14, 2022
Who Was Thomas Loden Jr.?
Thomas Edwin Loden Jr. or Thomas Loden was a 58-year-old man who was pronounced dead on the 14th of December in 2022. Thomas Loden Jr. was well-known as a former American Marines corps recruiter. Thomas was on the death penalty since 2001 on the charges of rape, capital murder, and four counts of sexual battery against Leesa Maria Gray.
Loden met Leesa on the 22nd of June in 2000. The waitress was stranded with a flat tire when Loden forced her into his car. Thomas Loden offered to help her out but later got angry when the girl told him that she never wanted to become a Marine. He then sexually assaulted the teenage girl for four hours and later suffocated her to death bed.
He was married to Katrina Loden.
Thomas Loden Jr. Execution
In the afternoon, according to court records, “Thomas Loden was discovered lying by the side of a road with the words ‘I’m really sorry’ carved into his chest and apparent self-inflicted lacerations on his wrists.” In the Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman. Jr. was injected with a mixture of lethal drugs and was later on declared dead at 6:12 pm.
‘The last meal he ate was two bone-in fried pork chops, fried okra, a baked sweet potato with butter, Pillsbury Grands biscuits with the butter and molasses, peach cobbler with French vanilla ice cream, and had a Lipton sweet tea,’ the Mississippi Department of Corrections stated Fox News Digital.
As per the media reports, ‘Thomas Loden was dressed in a red-colored prison jumpsuit and before being executed, he stated ‘I love you’ to his family in Japanese.’