Chattanoogan
December 9, 2014
Death Row inmate Gregory Thompson has died at the age of 52.
He was pronounced dead at 5:40 p.m. on Thursdayat Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.
Thompson died of natural causes.
Thompson was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for the murder of a female newspaper reporter, 28-year-old Brenda Blanton Lane. She was abducted from a Walmart by Thompson and a juvenile in Coffee County on New Year’s Day 1985.