![]() ![]() Gray’s appellate attorneys also have questioned the military’s jurisdiction over the case. The federal appeal was filed in 2008 for Gray, whose attorneys claimed he had an ineffective lawyer in his earlier case and lacked the mental capacity to stand trial. He pleaded guilty in civilian courts to two other killings and five rapes and was sentenced to eight life terms, three of them consecutive. Grey was convicted and ordered condemned in military court in 1988 for two murders and three rapes in the Fayetteville, North Carolina, area while stationed at Fort Bragg, where he reached the rank of specialist and was a cook. The commandant of Fort Leavenworth’s disciplinary barracks where Gray is held is the one who would schedule the date and time of the execution, according to the federal government’s court filings. president - the nation’s commander in chief - has the power to commute a military death sentence, and no service member can be put to death unless the president signs off on it, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]() Those inmates, whose appeals are pending, include Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in a 2009 shooting rampage at a Texas Army base. military’s death row, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a non-profit research group that opposes capital punishment. Grey, 51, is among six people on the U.S. Pizza, wings and pentobarbital: Profound apology from murderer before his lethal injection in Georgia.Death-row inmate’s lawyers argue lethal injection amounts to ‘torture’ and he’d rather face a firing squad.Ohio’s youngest death row inmate, 19, never touched murder weapon.A message left by The Associated Press with Gray’s capital public defender, Tim Kane, was not immediately returned. 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. No known execution date has been set for Gray as of Tuesday. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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