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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I like the way you think!
Its hard to believe a career marine did something like that. Crazy!
So the left could claim that death penalty trials cost more than life sentences.
As far as I’m concerned, DP is worth every penny to keep such wicked people off the streets and in a position to never harm anybody, ever again. As long as these kinds of people exist, society...meaning any of us, will be harmed. Havi g to pay for cots and meals, is harm.
Well. Bye!
Why?
2. There is NO SUCH THING as an "Ex-Marine." Once a Marine, always a Marine, even if they're executed for desertion, mutiny or treason.
“Japan’s population of blacks is 0.02%
This has more to do with Japan’s low crime rate than their Muslim population.”
Is that inc. the US military members on all the bases here ? They seem to commit most of the crime by foreigners in Japan .
They need to bring back public hangings for certain crimes, and when there’s irrefutable evidence and a confession it needs to be done quickly.
I got 30 days in FB jail for saying (to quote Dean Martin in ROUGH NIGHT IN JERICHO) “LOCK HIM UP. WE’LL HANG HIM TOMORROW RIGHT AFTER THE TRIAL.” Not 22 years later.
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