Thomas Edwin Loden, Jr. v. State of Mississippi

RANDOLPH, PRESIDING JUSTICE, FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. Before the Court is Thomas Edwin Loden Jr.'s fourth 1 petition for post-conviction relief. Loden challenges the Mississippi Department of Corrections' use of midazolam in its lethal-injection protocol. He claims that midazolam is not an "appropriate anesthetic or sedative" that, "if properly administered in a sufficient quantity, is likely to render the condemned inmate unconscious, so that the execution process should not entail a substantial risk of severe pain" under Mississippi Code Section 99-19-51 (Supp. 2018). Loden requests this Court to…