
A “remorseful” former marine who pleaded guilty to the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl in 2000 was put to death in Mississippi.
Thomas Edwin Loden Jr, 58, was pronounced dead at 6.12pm local time on Wednesday by Sunflower County coroner Heather Burton. He was the second inmate executed in the state in 10 years amid growing calls for abolishing capital punishment.