Ronald A. Gray, 42, was convicted in connection with a spree of four murders and eight rapes in the Fayetteville, N.C., area between April 1986 and January 1987 while he was stationed at Fort Bragg. He has been on death row at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., since April 1988.
"While approving a sentence of death for a member of our armed services is a serious and difficult decision for a commander in chief, the president believes the facts of this case leave no doubt that the sentence is just and warranted,"..........."The president's thoughts and prayers are with the victims of these heinous crimes and their families and all others affected," White House press secretary Dana Perino said.
"While approving a sentence of death for a member of our armed services is a serious and difficult decision for a commander in chief, the president believes the facts of this case leave no doubt that the sentence is just and warranted,"..........."The president's thoughts and prayers are with the victims of these heinous crimes and their families and all others affected," White House press secretary Dana Perino said.
Gray's warrent of execution approved by GW Bush today is the first such US presidential assent since Dwight Eisenhower signed such an order in 1957 that execution occured 4 years later in 1961 during the Presidency of J.F. Kennedy.
Eisenhower was the first president to be born in Texas, it's all to easy to forget GW Bush was born in Connecticut. The only other Texan president was L.B. Johnson. So it's not really a Texan issue.
But it is one of quite incredible hypocrisy is it not?
Read the White house press secretary's words again :-
"While approving a sentence of death for a member of our armed services is a serious and difficult decision for a commander in chief"
US confirmed and reported deaths in Iraq since the illegal invasion : 4124
http://icasualties.org/oif/
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coverage
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ggP77qC4esV3XpNNgJq25XW25f0QD927JENG0
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/07/29/bush-affirms-death-sentence-for-member-of-us-military/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/us/29execute.html?ref=us
Eisenhower was the first president to be born in Texas, it's all to easy to forget GW Bush was born in Connecticut. The only other Texan president was L.B. Johnson. So it's not really a Texan issue.
But it is one of quite incredible hypocrisy is it not?
Read the White house press secretary's words again :-
"While approving a sentence of death for a member of our armed services is a serious and difficult decision for a commander in chief"
US confirmed and reported deaths in Iraq since the illegal invasion : 4124
http://icasualties.org/oif/ ___________________________________
coverage
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ggP77qC4esV3XpNNgJq25XW25f0QD927JENG0 http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/07/29/bush-affirms-death-sentence-for-member-of-us-military/ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/us/29execute.html?ref=us
