US Supreme Court rejects Ronald Gray’s petition for appeal
Ronald 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.
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 reports that the Supreme Court has refused to hear his latest round of appeals.
Lawyers for Gray had asked the court to determine whether military or civilian courts should be responsible for hearing appeals in the case.
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.
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.
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.
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Proceed forward without delay of sentencing, should’ve been done already.
Agreed, been wasting a lot of food and air on this vermin imho
Give him to the rocket man in N. Korea and put him in front of one of those AA guns that they use for firing squads.
I agree, death by quad-14.5mm or thrown to a pit of hungry coyotes
yeh Jeff, or else the dogs he fed his uncle to!
TAH Cook day?
But, is he really guilty? Did he really do those things?
If yes, execute away.
YEF, hallway, wax, floor buffer, GET TO WORK!!!
They had this thing called a “trial”
It was followed by another thing called “appeal”
Hope that helps.
Ah, so self evident.
I guess I should read before commenting.
Yeah, now think about that while you’re buffing the hallway floor!
And no huffing the floor wax!!
Yef! Stop reading! Start listening! You’re here to DO, not read or think! Eyes and ears open, mouth shut! Buffer, hallway, Go!
I’m surprised he wasn’t given a full retirement pension and a free house by Obama while he was in charge “because racism!”
I guess he didn’t get a chance to talk to Manning about doing the “because transgender!” tactic.
What are they waiting for now? Strap him down and stick the needle in!
Once you read this [redacted] piece of [redacted] list of crimes, you will want to see that he assumes room temperature as soon as possible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Gray
Yeah, this guy is most deserving of a death sentence.
Could he just be executed a little bit, resuscitated and executed again? Maybe 3 or 4 times?
30 years on death row is ridiculous, but still, better late than never. Let’s do this.
Outliving his victims… sickening.
Oh, for Pete’s sake, just shoot him.
No Ex, that’d be an honorable death… I’d suggest hanging, followed by being drawn and quartered… or we could just skip the hanging.. Then again, maybe a blood eagle would be more appropriate..
Judicious application of white phosphorus incendiaries.
Now THAT I could get behind! Maybe after a napalm bath?
Too expensive, why not a couple of old tires, some gasoline and a bottle rocket?
Ants. Honey. 4 tent stakes. 4 short pieces of rope. Some assembly and patience required.
Two ropes.
The Airborne Creed – FAIL
I volunteered as a parachutist, fully realizing the hazard of my chosen service and by my thoughts and actions will always uphold the prestige, honor and high esprit-de-corps of parachute troops.
I belong to the finest unit in the world. By my actions and deeds alone, I speak for my fighting ability. I will strive to uphold the honor and prestige of my outfit, making my country proud of me and of the unit to which I belong.
Scaphism + Pay per View = PROFIT
So I’m 56 years old and a US Military death sentence has not been carried out in my lifetime. Bizarre!
At this rate, Ex-Major Nidal Hassan will outlive me (and since he is paraplegic and in constant pain, I’m actually OK with that.)
That’s pretty much the way I feel about Hasan too. Whether he’s executed, or he spends however much time he has in prison, in his body, justice will be served (insofar as we’re legally able to administer it).
I’m 55, read it exactly the same. Time to make vacancies on death row.
Make his execution a pay-per-view event. Or, offer a lottery for the opportunity to be his executioner(s).
I came upon the plaque in the woods near McKellar’s lodge were one of his victims was found, it was kind of creepy. Fort Bragg clean sweep always interesting.
I just wish that they could bring Ol’ Sparky back for this convict.
Me too, if it was still being used I’d say strap him and zap him!
Most of them were Direct Current.
I would like to see them use three phase 400 cycle AC just like aircraft systems.
Major pain.
Fun fact:
The electric chair was used as a tool in the fight between Edison (who favored direct current) and Westinghouse (who favored alternating current). Though not invented by Edison, he financed the development of the electric chair, which runs on alternating current as a demonstration of how AC could be deadly. Used the chair to kill large animals (including an elephant once) in public demonstrations of how much safer Edison’s DC generators were.
Just strap him in and give him a good jolt of say, 2300 VAC three phase juice!
Haha! Well, hell, let’s just git’r’dun!
While I am not a fan of death by state, I do rather enjoy the obvious, that this POS surely does not want to die.
Japan was busy with their rope the other day,
Yeah, but it took 18 years to do him and the other six. Six more await their destiny. They’re probably shitting their fundoshi right about now.
Strap him to a 1000lb bomb and drop him from a B-1B on a carpet bombing mission …will turn him too sticks and stones and bits of bones
I’m not military so help me out here, don’t they have one of those fixtures that hold jet engines so they can fire them up for test? If so, stick him behind it chained to a post.
Better yet, let him ride one of those rocket sleds the astronauts practiced with
but without the G suit and helmet.
Repeat until flat.
I like this. Look at the post-deceleration pictures of Col John Stapp.
If it weren’t for that pesky 8th Amendment, we could do all sorts of interesting stuff.
No 5 point harness either. Betting pool on final distance tossed.
It’s been HOW long and this scumbag is still breathing my air. Yeah, that’s justice.
Later.
Maybe the SJW’s will hook him up with a sex change or a discharge upgrade on the taxpayer’s buck before he “rides the lightning”.
No better way to spend our dollars.
Its the PTSD.