With just 15 days until Thomas Loden is set to be executed by the state of Mississippi, by injecting him with three separate substances, he and four other people on death row are challenging that method of execution in federal court and seeking a delay to his execution until that challenge is complete.
“This civil action is not about whether any of the five plaintiffs, including Mr. Loden, should be executed, but about what the methods of execution should be,” Jim Craig, director of the Louisiana office of the MacArthur Justice Center and former Mississippi-based attorney, said during an…
