Posted on 12/15/2022 9:43:17 AM PST by Morgana
A marine on death row for raping and murdering 16-year-old Leesa Marie Gray in 2000 ate pork chops and biscuits for his final meal before his execution.
Thomas Loden, 58, wore a red prison jumpsuit and was covered by a white head sheet during his execution as he beame the second inmate to be killed by lethal injection in Mississippi in two years.
His last meal was made up of two fried pork chops, fried okra, a baked sweet potato with butter, Pillsbury Grands biscuits with butter and molasses, peach cobbler with French vanilla ice cream and Lipton sweet tea, Fox News reported.
Loden had been condemned to die by lethal injection and spent the last 21 years in prison after pleading guilty for capital murder, on rape and four counts of sexual battery against teenager Leesa Marie Gray.
Wanda Farris, Gray's mother, attended the execution at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, to watch her daughter's killer die. She said last week that she had forgiven Loden years ago but didn't believe his apology.
Farris said: 'I don't particularly want to see somebody die. But I do believe in the death penalty... I do believe in justice.'
Before the injection started, Loden said he was 'deeply remorseful' for his crime.
'For the past 20 years, I've tried to do a good deed every single day to make up for the life I took from this world,' Loden said. 'If today brings you nothing else, I hope you get peace and closure.'
He concluded his last words by saying 'I love you' in Japanese, officials said.
Loden had been condemned to die by lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, ending up on death row in 2001.
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His victim didn’t get the choice of her favorite last meal.
Crazy-eyed MOFO.
Why did I have to pay for his 3 hots and a cot Daily for 22 years?
Should have been gutted and force fed his own entrails until he expired
AT the very least, he admitted that he was responsible. But good deeds don’t pay the butchers bill. Only the blood of Christ suffices.
...nor did she have knowledge of when she was going to die.
They should surprise these death row bastards with their executions. Just randomly pick a day and let them have it. No scheduled execution.
Because liberal lawyers.
Actually 22 years is pretty quick.
It’s absolutely outrageous that they get to pick their “last meal.”
Why is it that when someone is killed, their relatives are always the ones who are on TV or in the “media” claiming they “forgive” the murderer? Doesn’t make sense to me. I’d let God forgive him and I’d help arrange the meeting.
The guy just snapped, raped and murdered this girl, then immediately tried to kill himself, and by all accounts was crushed with remorse and sorrow for every day he was in prison up until his final words.
What causes people to just snap like that?
All that and in the background singing, "Happy Entrails to You!"
Civil war general John Pope uttered that quote long before Patton and I’m willing to bet he cribbed it off some other general who said it long before he did.
“It’s absolutely outrageous that they get to pick their “last meal.””
It’s a tradition. I’m not against it because honestly how does one really enjoy it? Think about it.
Loaded with cholesterol, bad for the heart
Isn’t it Japan that does something similar?
The inmate has no idea when the execution will take place?
The way we treat those we've condemned to die says more about us than them.
I still recall Colorado's last execution back in 1997 where the condemned was denied a final cigarette as Colorado's prison had recently become smoke-free.
I thought that was a crappy thing to do.
The guy has escaped the death penalty for 21 years already. this is NOT justice for the mother of the dead girl.
Unlike America where execution dates are set in advance, prisoners in Japan are executed with very little warning and are told they are going to die on the morning of their execution - usually about an hour before. The UN Committee against Torture has criticised Japan for the psychological strain this places on inmates and their families.
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