The state revised the protocol to allow the use of midazolam if thiopental or pentobarbital cannot be obtained.Ī federal district judge granted an injunction to prevent the state from using compounded pentobarbital or midazolam, but the 5th U.S. In 2015, he joined other four other Mississippi death row inmates in a federal lawsuit challenging the state’s lethal injection protocol. Loden filed several appeals of his conviction, and those were unsuccessful. Loden started operating the Marines’ recruiting office later that year in Vicksburg, Mississippi.ĭuring Loden’s sentencing hearing after he pleaded guilty, he did not cross examine state witnesses, did not object to exhibits that prosecutors showed and did not offer any evidence to help his own case, the attorney general’s office wrote. He served in Operation Desert Storm and went to recruiter school in 1998. Loden had joined the Marine Corps immediately after he graduated from high school in Itawamba County in 1982. Relatives found her car hours later with her purse still inside and the hazard lights flashing.Īccording to court documents, her body was found the next day in Loden’s van. Prosecutors said she was last seen driving out of the restaurant parking lot. Gray disappeared June 22, 2000, on her way home from working as a waitress at her family’s restaurant in the Dorsey community. Court records said Loden spent four hours repeatedly raping and sexually battering Gray before suffocating and strangling her to death. Mississippi’s most recent execution was in November.Īccording to documents the attorney general filed Tuesday with the state Supreme Court, Loden kidnapped Leesa Marie Gray, who was stranded on the side of a road in northern Mississippi’s Itawamba County. Thomas Edwin Loden Jr., now 58, has been on death row since 2001, when he pleaded guilty to capital murder, rape and four counts of sexual battery. Marine Corps recruiter who was convicted in the 2000 rape and killing of a 16-year-old waitress. (AP) - The Mississippi attorney general’s office is asking the state to set an execution date for a former U.S.
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