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       ~ Dominique Ray, 07Feb19, (AL) ~
   DIR By: BuzzC
       Date: December 16, 2018, 11:43 pm
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       Execution set for Alabama inmate convicted of killing teen--
       November 9, 2018
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       MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has set an execution date for an
       inmate sentenced to death for the 1995 fatal stabbing of a
       15-year-old girl.
       The Alabama Supreme Court set a Feb. 7 execution date for
       Dominique Ray.
       Tiffany Harville disappeared from her Selma home on July 15,
       1995. Her decomposing body was found in a field a month later.
       Ray was convicted in 1999 after co-defendant Marcus Owden
       testified that Ray cut the girl’s throat after they picked her
       up from her home and raped her. Owden said they also took the
       girl’s purse which had $6 or $7 in it.
       A judge sentenced Ray to die after jurors voted 11-1 to
       recommend that he receive the death penalty.
       Months before his death penalty trial, Ray got a life sentence
       for the 1994 slaying of two brothers, 13-year-old Reinhard
       Mabins and his 18-year-old brother, Ernest Mabins.
       Newspaper reports from the time say another man had been
       initially charged in Harville’s slaying, but those charges were
       dropped when Owden confessed to a role in all three killings.
       According to Owden’s confession, the Mabins brothers were shot
       in February 1994 after they refused to join a gang organized by
       Owden and Ray.
       Owden was sentenced to life in prison.
       Lawyers for Ray unsuccessfully sought to overturn the death
       sentence, arguing Ray’s defense lawyers were not told that Owden
       was suffering from schizophrenia at the time he implicated Ray
       and testified against him.
       The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2016 upheld the death
       sentence, rejecting defense claims that Ray’s trial counsel had
       failed to present mitigating evidence regarding his traumatizing
       childhood, mental deficiencies and steroid abuse. The appellate
       court wrote that while it was “troubled by the paucity of
       counsel’s mitigation investigation, our confidence in the
       outcome of the sentencing is not undermined.”
       Alabama last carried out an execution in April when 83-year-old
       Walter Leroy Moody was put to death for killing a federal judge
       with a mail bomb.
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