In 1988, Ronald A. Gray was sentenced to death by the Army for two murders and three rapes while he was a specialist and worked as a cook at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In a civilian court, he pleaded guilty to two other murders and five other rapes. He was sentenced to eight life terms in that court. A stay was placed on his scheduled execution because he claimed that his lawyer in the initial trial was ineffectual.<\/p>\n
U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten last week sided with the U.S. government in denying a bid by former Fort Bragg, North Carolina, soldier Ronald A. Gray to block the military from pressing ahead with the execution by lethal injection.<\/p>\n
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No known execution date has been set for Gray as of Tuesday. Though Gray’s attorneys have said in recent court filings that they plan to ask military courts to intervene, that status of those appeals was unclear Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Gray would be the first prisoner executed by the Army since they executed John A. Bennett who was convicted and hanged in 1961 for the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old Austrian girl.<\/p>\n
There are six others on the Army’s death row, including Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood terrorist and Hasan Akbar who murdered two of his officers during the advance on Baghdad in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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