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Another monster has been removed from the face of the earth.
Thomas Edwin Loden, Jr. is dead.
He was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. via execution.
Justice Served
Loden was convicted of brutally raping and murdering a young girl in Mississippi more than two decades ago.
In June 2000, he pleaded guilty to capital murder, rape, and four counts of sexual battery for the slaughter of 16-year-old Leesa Marie Gray.
Gray was walking home from a waitressing job after getting a flat tire.
Loden reportedly saw her and stopped, telling her, “Don’t worry. I’m a Marine. We do this kind of stuff.”
Instead of helping her, he put her into the back of his van and got angry when she said she would never want to be a Marine.
He then proceeded to sexually assault the girl for the next four hours before strangling and suffocating her to death.
According to court records, the former Marine was found “lying by the side of a road with the words ‘I’m sorry’ carved into his chest and apparent self-inflicted lacerations on his wrists.”
Before being put to death, Loden stated, “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.
“I know these are mere words and cannot erase the damage I did. If today brings you nothing else, I hope you get peace and closure.”
Nothing he could ever do could make up for the horrific death that young girl suffered.
This is my main problem with the death penalty in that it always takes far too long to carry out the sentence.
More than 20 years later, how much impact does this have knowing her family has had to live without Leesa for all this time while this monster was still able to breathe?
Source: New York Post
