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http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/11/21/First_military_execution_since_61_planned/UPI-53731227273424/

First military execution since '61 planned

Published: Nov. 21, 2008 at 8:17 AM

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. soldier convicted of rape and
murder is scheduled to be executed next month in the first military
execution in more than 40 years, the Army said.

Pvt. Ronald Gray, convicted 20 years ago, will be executed by lethal
injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind.,
CNN reported. The execution will be carried out by soldiers from Fort
Leavenworth, Kan., where Gray had been on death row since 1988.

Gray was convicted of raping and killing a female Army private and a
civilian near his post at Fort Bragg, N.C., and was convicted of the
rape and attempted murder of another soldier in her barracks. Military
and civilian courts found Gray responsible for the crimes committed
between April 1986 and January 1987, CNN reported.

In July, President George Bush approved the Army's request to execute
Gray.

"The president took action following completion of a full appellate
process, which upheld the conviction and sentence to death," the Army
said in a news release.

The last U.S. military execution was in 1961, when Army Pvt. John
Bennett was hanged for raping and attempting to kill an 11-year-old
Austrian girl.