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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nRonald Gray, a cook with the 82d Airborne Division’s 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment was convicted in 1988 by a general court martial of two counts of premeditated murder, one count of attempted premeditated murder, three rapes, two robberies, and two counts of forcible sodomy. He has been sitting on Fort Leavenworth’s US Disciplinary Barracks death row since his conviction. <\/p>\n
President George W. Bush signed his death warrant and his execution was originally scheduled for December 10, 2008. Appeals were rejected in 2015 and 2017. Now, Stars & Stripes<\/a> reports that the Supreme Court has refused to hear his latest round of appeals.<\/p>\n Lawyers for Gray had asked the court to determine whether military or civilian courts should be responsible for hearing appeals in the case.<\/p>\n Gray has filed numerous appeals in recent years claiming errors during his military trial and subsequent appeals, including claims that his appeals lawyer was ineffective, his sentence was the result of racial discrimination and military authorities failed to disclose evidence about his competency.<\/p>\n Many of those appeals have been dismissed or delayed in recent years, as the case has been heard by officials from a U.S. District Court in Kansas, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Army Court of Criminal Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now he’s on the fast track to complete his sentence – the be the first soldier executed by the Army since John A. Bennett was hanged on April 13, 1961 for First Degree Child Rape and Attempted First Degree Murder of an 11-year-old Austrian girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"