The Mississippi Department of Corrections issued the following statement.
Convicted killer Thomas Edwin Loden Jr. was executed by lethal injection today at the Mississippi State Penitentiary.
The execution procedures began at 6 p.m. and Loden was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. CST. The Mississippi Department of Corrections carried out the order of the Mississippi Supreme Court issued on November 17 after all appeals had been exhausted.
Loden was sentenced to death in Itawamba County Circuit Court on Sept, 21, 2001, for capital murder of a 16-year old girl. He was also sentenced to 30 years for rape and to 30 years for sexual battery.
32 comments:
He will never kill and rape again-
Killed a 16 year old girl in 2001 and 22 years later he is executed??? Something very wrong with our judicial system!!
Hope he likes it there.
20 years too late
20 years past due. He got off easy.
Good riddance to another thug.
Cost the taxpayers a bundle to house him for 20 years
Death Juice Should have been slowly injected over a four hour period, do he could have suffered the approximate length he was torturing that pour girl, hope he’s roasting over the fires of hell for eternity.
He got a chance to meet God today. The question I can't answer is how that encounter went for him. My humanity wants to rank sins and my faith says we are all flawed. I do know God will work it out His way, regardless of what I may think.
Good riddance, next! Light em up, save my tax dollars!
He enjoyed pork chops, sweet potato, okra and biscuits before he was put down. Why not offer death row prisoners weekly opportunities to voluntarily off themselves instead of waiting 21 years?
Well, now that he has gotten the death sentence served he can now begin serving the other sentences he got for rape and sexual battery. They probably need to put him into Unit 29.
If I were the girl’s father, he would’ve been dead and burning in hell long ago.
I believe the previous 10 commenters summed up how I feel about a person like this. As a father of 3 girls it would have been difficult to not take Justice into my own hands.
9:17 I didn't waste time wondering.
How? He was probably denied bond so he has always been behind bars since his arrest.
KF@7:25am: HOW?
Get hired as a guard in the killer's lockup.
According to Christians he will go to heaven. He asked for forgiveness so all is well. What a load of horse crap
Now he is in heaven, since he likely asked for forgiveness before he passed away. He's there with all your loved ones.
Ain't Christianity grand?
The death penalty pronounced and carried out by our State is cruel and even more so to wait 20+ years. All people, even those that have taken lives are redeemable. What kind of state are we becoming!
Just in from Mississippi Today. We need to feel sorry for the killer.
https://mississippitoday.org/2022/12/14/marines-troubled-life-set-to-end-with-execution/
Prayers for Mississippi and its leaders after the state sanctioned murder of a human being.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/missouri-execution-mclaughlin/2022/12/15/id/1100595/
Double down.
The folks at Empower Mississippi must be devastated
I’m always amazed at how many people want to torture prisoners. Have you heard of the constitution? He’s dead and had 20 years in prison before that. Seems like he got a pretty severe punishment. I’m not totally against the death penalty as long as the guilt is unquestionable, but there have been too many cases of wrongly convicted people being murdered by the state. I can’t think of a worse ending than getting punished like that for something you know is a lie. The hopelessness those victims must have felt outweighs the gratification of killing the guilty for me personally.
I have seen a lot of talk nationally the last few years about how hard it is to get the Drugs for the lethal injection cocktail. However, I also see a news article everyday about Fentanyl overdoses killing people, seems to basically just make them pass out and then suppress their breathing. Seems like the logical way to go, Dems want to let homeless people do it in broad daylight in our cities with no repercussions why not use it in our prison system as well.
Capital punishment is not a deterrent to capital crimes. There is little nexus between the crime and the punishment (20+ years later).
Capital punishment is a political tool for the "law and order" types.
However, there needs to be a sure "life without parole" sentence for those who would otherwise get the needle.
Steve Miller band and the Bible both day “you have to go to hell before you get to heaven”..
This 'last meal' madness needs to stop. Burle or Burl needs to shit-can that bull shit immediately. What was the last meal going to be for the 16-year-old girl who just got off work?
Feral animals like this Loden need to be extinguished for the safety and good of us all.
Statistically speaking, the firing squad, I'm informed, is the most reliable means of execution. It would appear to be the least expensive as well.
@8:15, it's cruel, you say, for the condemned to remain incarcerated for 20 years (for appeals to his sentence that he, the condemned, wants to pursue). And yet if sentence were carried out, say, 20 days later or even 20 months later, removing that cruel 20 years of incarceration, your type would still say that is also cruel.
There is no pleasing you-all.
'Capital punishment is not a deterrent to capital crimes. There is little nexus between the crime and the punishment (20+ years later).'
I won't ask you to support that claim by providing a link, since there is no way in hell to prove the truth of it, with or without an article written by a graduate sociology major.
PS: Nexus means presence, not comparison, link or connection.
"Capital punishment is not a deterrent to capital crimes. There is little nexus between the crime and the punishment (20+ years later)"
Thanks for imparting your wisdom, O wise one!
If it's not too much of an imposition, could you please provide the name of even one murderer who committed another capital crime after he was executed?
I'll wait.
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