Black Murderer of White Newspaper Reporter Dies While Waiting to be Executed

Chattanoogan
December 9, 2014

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Brenda Lane was abducted from outside Walmart, before being stabbed to death so the Black thief could steal her car.

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.

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Gregory Thompson died of natural causes before he could be executed.