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McClatchy Washington Bureau
Posted on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011
Many death sentences in U.S. military overturned
By Marisa Taylor
WASHINGTON — In December 2008, former Army Pvt. Ronald Gray was on the brink of becoming the first military execution in almost 50 years.
The rapist and murderer of four women had sat on death row for two decades by the time President George W. Bush approved his death warrant.
But the week before Gray was to receive a lethal injection, a federal judge halted the execution because of a new appeal.