Man To Be Executed Wednesday
He will become the second inmate executed in Mississippi in 10 years. Thomas Edwin Loden Jr. pleaded guilty to rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl. The Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman is set to execute Thomas Edwin Loden Jr., 58, for capital murder, rape, and four counts of sexual battery against Leesa Marie Gray. Following a lawsuit filed by Loden and four Mississippi death row inmates over Mississippi’s lethal injection protocol, a federal judge …