execution in Mississippi of a former Marine convicted of rape and murder
A former US Marine who confessed to raping and killing a 16-year-old girl in 2000 was executed on Wednesday, December 14 in the state of Mississippi. Thomas Edwin Loden, 58, received a lethal injection at 18:00 (0000 GMT) at Parchman Penitentiary, an overcrowded prison in this conservative southern US state. Thomas Loden had pleaded guilty … Read more