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US Military sets an execution date

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The United States  Army has scheduled the execution of  Pvt. Ronald Gray at Terre Haute for December 12, 2008.  Odds appear to favor a stay as federal habeas litigation, from my understanding, has yet to be exhausted.  From the Army’s press release: The Army has scheduled the execution of Pvt. Ronald A. Gray for Dec. 10, 2008, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. In 1988, a court-martial panel sitting at Fort Bragg, N.C., convicted Pvt. Gray by unanimous vote of committing crimes in 1986 and 1987 in the Fayetteville, N.C. area — to include two murders, an attempted murder, and three rapes. The court-martial panel sentenced him to death for these crimes. The Secretary of the Army directed that Pvt. Gray be executed by lethal injection, and the Army will be responsible for conducting the execution at the Terre Haute facility based on an agreement with the Bureau of Prisons...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on November 20, 2008 (boomark / email).