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~ Ricky Gray, 18Jan17 (VA) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: December 30, 2016, 11:49 am
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Virginia asks court to deny request to halt execution--
December 23, 2016
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – The state of Virginia is asking a federal
court to deny an inmate’s request to halt his upcoming
execution.
Attorneys for convicted killer Ricky Gray have asked the U.S.
District Court in Richmond to stay his lethal injection set for
Jan. 18, citing a risk that he’ll suffer a painful death. They
are challenging the state’s plan to use drugs from a secret
compounding pharmacy.
The attorney general’s office said in a Friday filing that Gray
won’t be “irreparably harmed” by the compounded substances. The
filing also says there’s a strong public interest in seeing the
punishment carried out.
A hearing on the request to halt the execution is scheduled for
Jan. 3.
Gray was convicted of killing a Richmond couple and their young
daughters on New Year’s Day 2006.
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Re: ~ Ricky Gray, 18Jan17 (VA) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: January 11, 2017, 7:46 pm
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Federal judge rejects death row inmate's claim that Virginia
risks 'chemically torturing' him by using cocktail of lethal
drugs obtained from a compounding pharmacy--
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
A federal judge refused Tuesday to halt the execution of a
Virginia inmate who's challenging the state's plan to use lethal
injection drugs from a secret compounding pharmacy.
Ricky Gray's attorneys had asked U.S. District Judge Henry
Hudson for a delay to enable the man to bring his legal
challenge, saying the state risks 'chemically torturing' him if
it uses compounded midazolam and other drugs to put him to death
him on January 18.
But U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson said Gray failed to show
that he is likely to win his case against the state.
Hudson noted that Gray was sentenced to death in 2006 but waited
until a month before his scheduled execution to dispute the
state's lethal injection protocol.
'If Gray had acted with appropriate diligence, he would have had
ample opportunity to address his concerns without disrupting the
execution date set by the state court,' Hudson wrote in his
decision.
Gray's attorneys can appeal to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals.
One of his attorneys, Lisa Fried, said in a statement that they
will continue to challenge the state's 'risky proposed method of
execution.'
'The string of problematic executions is the inevitable result
of using the sedative midazolam in combination with drugs that
cause excruciating pain,' Fried said.
'It is our position that it is unconstitutional for the
(Virginia Department of Corrections) to carry out an execution
that risks chemically torturing a prisoner to death,' she said.
Gray was convicted of killing Bryan and Kathryn Harvey and their
9-year-old and 4-year-old daughters during a home invasion.
Bryan was a musician and Kathryn was co-owner of the World of
Mirth toy store.
The Harvey's were preparing to host friends for a holiday chili
dinner when Gray and another man spotted their open front door.
They tied the family up in their basement, where they were
stabbed and beaten to death before their house was set on fire.
Gray claims he doesn't remember the killings because he was high
on PCP.
The other man was sentenced to life in prison.
Virginia's lethal injection protocol calls for the use of a
sedative - pentobarbital or midazolam - followed by rocuronium
bromide to halt breathing, and potassium chloride to stop the
heart.
Virginia plans to execute Gray using midazolam and potassium
chloride that it purchased from a compounding pharmacy under a
new state law, which also allows prison officials to shield the
supplier's identity.
Gray's attorneys say Virginia would be the first state in their
knowledge to perform an execution using compounded midazolam or
compounded potassium chloride and the first state to perform an
execution using more than one compounded drug.
Gray's attorneys argue that midazolam isn't a proper anesthetic
and therefore cannot effectively render him unconscious to
ensure his death is painless.
The fact that Virginia obtained the drugs from a compounding
pharmacy magnifies the risk that the state will 'chemically
torture' the man to death, they say.
Midazolam has come under fire after several problematic
executions.
Last month in Alabama, death row inmate Ronald Bert Smith Jr.
coughed, and his upper body heaved repeatedly for 13 minutes as
he was being sedated.
Oklahoma's use of midazolam as the first in a three-drug
protocol was challenged after the April 2014 execution of
Clayton Lockett, who writhed on a gurney, moaned and clenched
his teeth for several minutes before prison officials tried to
halt the process.
Lockett died after 43 minutes. A state investigation into
Lockett's execution revealed that a failed line caused the drugs
to be administered locally instead of into Lockett's blood.
Ohio and Arizona have used midazolam as the first in a two-drug
protocol.
Ohio inmate Dennis McGuire repeatedly gasped and snorted over 26
minutes during his January 2014 execution.
The state abandoned that method afterward and has yet to resume
executions.
Arizona halted executions after the July 2014 lethal injection
of convicted killer Joseph Rudolph Wood, who took nearly two
hours to die.
Smith and other Alabama inmates argued in a court case that the
drug was an unreliable sedative and could cause them to feel
pain, citing its use in problematic executions.
Hudson said Gray supplied 'no evidence that compounded drugs
would subject him to a 'substantial risk of serious harm.'
He noted that the U.S. Supreme Court and several appellate
courts have rejected inmates' challenges to the use of midazolam
in executions.
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Re: ~ Ricky Gray, 18Jan17 (VA) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: January 18, 2017, 4:06 am
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Virginia governor won’t spare life of convicted killer--
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said Tuesday
that he will not spare the life of a man set to be executed this
week for the slayings of two young girls in their Richmond home
on New Year’s Day 2006.
Ricky Gray is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on
Wednesday for the killings of 9-year-old Stella Harvey and her
4-year-old sister, Ruby. Gray was convicted of murdering the
girls and their parents while the family was getting ready to
have friends over for a holiday party.
The 39-year-old had asked the governor for clemency, arguing
that the sexual abuse he suffered as a child and subsequent drug
use provides an understanding of his actions that was never
provided to jurors.
But the Democratic governor said he has found no reason to
intervene in Gray’s case. The governor said Gray received a fair
and impartial trial and his case has been extensively reviewed
by the courts.
“Unless a court intervenes, the Department of Corrections will
carry out the execution in accordance with the order of the
sentencing court,” McAuliffe said in a statement.
A federal judge in Richmond and the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals have rejected Gray’s efforts to put his execution on
hold.
Gray and his nephew Ray Dandridge were looking for a home to rob
on New Year’s Day 2006 when they spotted the Harveys’ open door.
The girls and their parents, Bryan and Kathryn Harvey were found
in the basement of their burning home, bound, beaten and
stabbed, with their throats cut.
Gray also confessed to participating in the killing of
21-year-old Ashley Baskerville, her mother, Mary
Baskerville-Tucker, and stepfather, Percyell Tucker, in their
Richmond home less than a week later, but wasn’t tried in that
case. Gray and Dandridge said Ashley Baskerville had served as a
lookout for them during the Harvey slayings.
Kathryn Harvey was co-owner of a popular Richmond toy store, the
World of Mirth, and Bryan Harvey was a guitarist and singer for
the rock duo House of Freaks. Perycell Tucker was a forklift
operator and Mary Baskerville-Tucker worked at a dry cleaner.
Gray had asked McAuliffe to commute his sentence to life in
prison — the same sentence given to Dandridge, who pleaded
guilty to the Baskerville-Tucker killings.
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Re: ~ Ricky Gray, 18Jan17 (VA) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: January 18, 2017, 9:24 pm
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Ricky Gray executed by lethal injection for Harvey family
killings--
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
GREENSVILLE COUNTY, Va. — Ricky Javon Gray was put to death by
lethal ejection at 9.42 p.m. Wednesday at the Greensville
Correctional Center in Greensville County.
Gray’s last appeal was denied hours before his execution when
the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Gray’s request for a stay of
execution.
When officials asked Gray if he had any final words, he replied
“nope,” according to CBS 6 reporter Jon Burkett, who observed
the execution in the death chamber.
Gray and his nephew Ray Dandridge shocked the Richmond community
in January 2006 — when they killed seven people in six days.
The 39-year-old was convicted of murdering parents Kathryn and
Bryan Harvey, and their two young daughters, Ruby and Stella, on
New Year’s Day 2006.
The Harvey’s were found bound, beaten, and stabbed inside the
basement of their Woodland Heights home. The home was also set
on fire.
Gray received the death penalty for murdering the children.
Gray was also involved, though not convicted, in the murders of
Ashley Baskerville, 21; her mother, Mary Tucker, 47; and
stepdad, Percyell Tucker, 55.
Dandridge was given a life prison sentence after he was
convicted for the killings of the Baskerville-Tucker family,
five days after the Harvey murders.
Ashley Baskerville was with Gray and Dandridge during the Harvey
family murder.
As Gray’s execution approached, his lawyers argued that the
lethal injection that would be used to kill Gray amounts to
“cruel punishment.”
They pointed to one of the drugs that would be used, called
Midazolam, which they say would result in “chemical torture” and
that administering the drug would violate Ricky Gray’s
constitutional rights or cruel and unusual punishment.
Gray’s attorneys said a firing squad would be a more viable
option because it is quick and more effective.
Last week, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied an
emergency appeal for a stay of execution for Gray. Virginia
Governor Terry McAuliffe also declined to intervene on Tuesday,
January 17.
“Mr. Gray was convicted in a fair and impartial trial, and a
jury sentenced him to death in accordance with Virginia law.
Federal and state appellate courts have extensively reviewed his
case and denied his requested relief,” McAuliffe said in a
statement.
A video released recently by Virginians for Alternatives to the
Death Penalty showed Gray apologizing for the deaths of the
Harvey family.
“I’ve stolen something from the world,” Gray said at the start
of a video created by attorneys seeking his clemency.
“It’s never left my mind, because I understand exactly what
I took from the world by looking at my two sisters. I’m reminded
each time I talk and see them that this is what I took from the
world. You know, the potential for greatness in those kids.”
The 18-minute video also examines the impact of the severe
childhood sexual abuse Gray suffered, and the group argued that
the jury never heard testimony detailing the abuse, nor did they
hear about the drug use that ensued from said abuse.
In the video, Gray’s family members and the experts who have met
with him since his trial described how Gray became addicted to
drugs as a child as a way to cope with the ‘horrific sexual and
physical abuse’ he suffered for years at the hands of his family
members. In addition, they said he was high on PCP and other
drugs at the time of his crimes.
The video was provided to Governor McAuliffe by Gray’s lawyers,
along with other materials, in support of a petition for
executive clemency.
Source:
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