US military to execute first inmate in over 50 years
Eight years after he was sentenced to die, Ronald Gray could be the first death row inmate executed by the US military in more than half a century.
In January 1987, Pvt. Ronald Gray was arrested for the rape of a woman near Fairlane Acres Mobile Home Park. Shorty after, police found the bodies of Kimberly Ann Ruggles and Pvt. Laura Lee Vickery-Clay. Evidence in the victim’s cars implicated Gray, and he pleaded guilty to two counts of murder, as well as five other rape charges.
A military jury found Gray guilty on all charges and sentenced him to death. He also received eight life sentences from a civilian court for his initial convictions.
For more than 25 years, Gray filed appeals claiming that he had an incompetent lawyer, that the military courts lacked the proper jurisdiction to prosecute him, and that he was not mentally stable enough to stand trial. These appeals were repeatedly denied.
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