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Tim Hanlon

Thomas Loden says sorry and tells family 'I love you' in Japanese before execution

A death row prisoner said he had tried to do a “good deed every single day” since killing a 16-year-old girl and added “I love you” to his family in Japanese, before he was given a lethal injection.

Thomas Edwin Loden Jr had pleaded guilty to capital murder, rape and four counts of sexual battery against Leesa Marie Gray who was killed in June, 2000.

A coroner pronounced Loden, 58, dead at 6.12 pm on Wednesday at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.

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