Ronald A. Gray closer to execution
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
What is the Government waiting for? Strap ’em and stick ’em!
Screw that, make it “want a blindfold and a smoke?” Ready, aim, fire.
29 years is too stinkin’ long to wait for justice. . . He should have been taking a dirt nap 28.5 years ago.
I say strap one to the chair and then have the rest of them hold hands, singing kumbaya, and then hit the switch and zap all 7 of them at the same time.
Group hug would be better.
They would be in parallel.
If they held hands they would be in series.
Kinda like Christmas Tree lights.
One goes out the rest stay on.
I’m no Journeyman’s Card-carrying Electrician, but I have a decent working knowledge of it, LET ME rig the wiring, set the current and amperage and they’d all be Crispy Critters with one jolt!
He needs to be dead a long time ago.
I understand the desire to not rush to execution, but prolonging the appeals process unnecessarily is wrong as well.
Every day longer he lives is another twist of the knife for his surviving victims and their families. This is the type of case where I could look him in the eyes, blow his brains out, and sleep better at night.
Rabid dogs need to be put down, so do rabid humans. There’s no fixing or curing the rabid dog and the same is true with these kinds of humans. We risk harm to others by delaying the appropriate outcome with these kinds of shit bags.
100% AGREEMENT
AMEN.
100%
I think that if he did a confession or witnesses and the evidence that backs it, five years to executed.
Change the damn law that’s says automatically appeal. If the inmate asked for the appeal, file it and have five years to do whatever. If he waives all appeals file it and set a date…
I’m a bit conflicted. While I do have plenty of stout trees, rope, quick lime, and access to a backhoe, the Chesapeake is right over there, and crabs gottta eat, too.
Or just leave the corpses in the woods. Vultures, maggots and wild hogs gotta eat too, ya’ know?
I once had one of my dogs come happily trotting out of the woods with a winter-kill deer leg in her maw. The reek could knock a buzzard off a shit wagon. I’d rather not repeat that.
Oh God I know exactly what you mean !!!!
EEEEEWWWWW !!!!!
Kind of like #bernasty’s mouth or asshole, (they both smell and function the same)…
Quicklime actually preserves the meat, unless one buries the body in quicklime before it expires. Then it just dies eventually, and will need to be extracted (if it is not to be preserved).
Here I go not paying attention again, but when did my Army go PC with the injection versus hanging.
Or better yet the firing squad.
I didn’t volunteer for much when I was in, but I would volunteer for that duty!!
Nope on the firing squad; that is an honorable death for an honorable enemy.
This cur needs to hang like a dog, and be cremated with the rope still around his neck.
Seems like a waste of some perfectly good rope to me, why not hang ’em all with the same piece?
I agree, if iI were given a choice; six shooters five live rounds please. Injection would be ok, if it were some good stuff.
Hang them all together at the same time on the same rope. Just hook it on the bottom of a Shithook and fly it out over the Atlantic Ocean, find a school of feeding sharks and OOPS !!! Who cut that rope ???
To get the liberals on board, maybe we should change the name from “the death penalty” to “retroactive abortion.”
LOL
But I think you have a good chance to be correct….
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Re: Hasan…no one has ever been executed for workplace violence.
/sarc
Fast Drop, Quick Stop.
Done
Buh bye.
Cocksucker.
Why do we keep doing this? These cocksuckers should have been hung years ago? I feel so sorry for the victims families that have to suffer all these years. They have a better chance of dying of old age before we ever off these shitbags! Hang all of these mother fuckers now!!!
Fuck him, he should have been executed years ago.
wow. Prison hasn’t been kind to Urkel.
^^^this us the best comment so far.
Great, now I can’t get he image of this scumbag standing there saying “did I do that?” out of my head.
My work here is done.
The animal known as Ronald A. Gray should have been put down years ago… in the same fashion that he killed his victims.
Screaming in terror and pain – and drawn out to the total length of time his victims have suffered? It does have some appeal to it.
Unless he has made other arrangements, Hell will more than make up for their suffering.
Maybe illary can help him. I’m sure the snowflakes are crying over this.
What’s lame is the fact that he can appeal the denial to the Court of Appeals for his Writ of Habeas Corpus, then he can petition for a Writ of certiorari with the supreme court.
Which he’s already tried to petition SCOTUS to grant certiorari on the merits, now he gets to petition for habeas corpus.
Anyway, I’m typically against the death penalty, (pro life except for war) but there’s a special dial place in help for this piece of shit.
I’m not sure who’s worse – Timothy Benn is or this douche bag.
So…… why were hangings stopped?
As long as height, weight, and drop are calculated there should not be any “do overs.”
JSF
The 1996 Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), which restricts the ability of death row prisoners to gain federal review of their cases.
Was passed during the drama over Tim McVeigh and appeals and I thought was supposed to limit the number of appeals . It was signed by Clinton and the Supremes held it as constitutional. I don’t see how even if you were convicted prior to this , the government could have just allowed one or maybe two appeals and call it a day. I’m sure I’m missing something but the old story of not enforcing or even applying the laws already on the books seems to be in effect with this guy. Some federal judge could commute his stay to life with no parole and the same limited contact with other prisoners. But the real question is why has this guy survived so long?
That’s not justice.
Gray was convicted prior to 1996. I believe the Constitution’s prohibitions regarding ex post facto laws thus prevents those provisions of the 1996 AEDPA from applying in his case.
I’m not a lawyer, so I ask one of our resident lawyer commenters to please correct me if I’m wrong.
Was reading about this in another article and they stated that the Military has a much harder time getting the death penalty actually enforced because military convicts have more avenues of appeal.
They can go through the state, federal and military appeals system with every appeal.
Is the reason he has not been executed is that he is in Civilian hands and not a military prison? Did the Army give up first claim on this guy and let civilian justice take a crack at him first and when it appeared it was taking too long some enterprising soul in The Army decided to exert their claim over this scumbag and get the ball rolling?
Last meal menu has been orderd …
Surf & Turf with pallet pleasing pairing:
Bologna Slice
Canned Tuna
Lime Bug Juice
That is all. Carry out the POD.
With that evidence …….. Out the back of Court House, out to the woods, double tap to the head. (just one mans opinion)