Ricky Gray

Judge Denies Stay Of Execution For Ricky Javon Gray

... The letter submitted by the mental health professionals to Mc Auliffe on Jan. 10 acknowledges Gray's "horrible" crimes that required a "strong punishment." Gray was convicted of killing four people in 2006*. Gray was given the death penalty specifically for the deaths of two children under the age of 10. He was given a sentence of life in prison for the death of their parents. Those who signed the letter also acknowledged the neglect, sexual and physical abuse Gray suffered as a child, which later contributed to his drug abuse. "In Mr. Gray's case, his abuse and trauma were left unaddressed and predictably led to profound despair and other serious trauma symptoms, drug addiction, and the drug use that resulted in the tragic crimes he committed with Ray Dandridge," the letter states. Dandridge — Gray's nephew — was similarly tried for the murders but was sentenced to life in prison without parole in return for pleading guilty to the ...

Hearing On Challenge To Ricky Gray Execution Set For Tuesday

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Expert Available To Join Lethal Injection Debate And Discuss Ricky Gray Execution

... takes viewers into the rarely seen world of death row and execution by following Jerry Givens, a former Virginia state executioner. It takes viewers to the trial of the Boston Marathon bomber and the internal struggle faced by Karen Brassard, who was injured in the attack. The Schieber family also appears, whose daughter was raped and killed. The family actually went against the prosecutor to fight for the life of their daughter’s murder. About Richard Stack. Richard Stack is an associate professor within the School of Communication. His professional life is dedicated to social justice. Stack’s third book, "Dead Wrong: Violence, Vengeance, and the Victims of Capital Punishment," helped reframe national debate from: “Is the death penalty a deterrent to crime?” to, “Can we trust our government to make such irreversible life-and-death decisions, when it makes so many mistakes?” "Grave Injustice: Unearthing Wrongful Executions" [2013] takes the innocence argument further. It tells the stories of men who were executed even as serious doubt persists in their cases. To speak ...

Gov. Mcauliffe Declines Clemency For Ricky Gray, Who Is Set To Be Executed Wednesday

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Virginia Man To Be Executed Tonight For Murdering Family Of Four After Governor Refuses To Spare His Life

... 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. Ricky’s execution will serve no purpose other than retribution, and it will add to the losses and suffering of members of our community. “Unless a court intervenes, the Department of Corrections will carry out the execution in accordance with the order of the sentencing court,” Mc Auliffe said in a statement. Gray’s attorneys called the governor’s decision disappointing, noting that dozens of mental health professionals had also asked for his life to be spared. “Ricky’s execution will serve no purpose other than retribution, and it will add to the losses and suffering of members of our community,” Rob Lee and ...

Remorse Is Not A Deep Enough Word For How I Feel

... Gray’s family explain how childhood abuse and subsequent drug addiction contributed ‘significantly’ to Gray’s heinous acts. “This pattern that he had established finally resulted in this terrible act of violence,” said neuropharmacologist Wilkie Wilson, Ph. D., explained in the video. Gray said he’s reminded of what he ‘took from this world’ every time he sees his two sisters. “Remorse is not a deep enough word for how I feel. I know my words can’t bring anything back, but I continuously feel horrible for the circumstances that I put them through. I robbed them of a lifelong supply of joy. I’ve stolen Christmas, birthdays, Easters, Thanksgivings, graduations, weddings, children …. There’s nothing  I can do to make up for that. It’s never left my mind, because I understand exactly what I took from the world by looking at my two sisters. I’m reminderd each time I see them that this is what I took from the world. The potential for greatness in those kids.”. “That’s the only father figure I have,” one of Gray’s nieces said. “I need him in my ...

Ricky Gray’s Final Day Looms; Federal Court Denies Stay Of Execution

... 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. Gray’s lawyers requested that Governor Mc Auliffe commute Gray’s sentence to life in prison without parole — the same sentence the Commonwealth agreed to for Dandridge. The ACLU also asked the governor for clemency. In a  letter to the governor , ACLU-VA Executive Director Claire Guthrie Gastañaga referred to the civil rights organization’s blanket opposition to the death penalty, calling it “demonstrably ineffective and cruel and unusual punishment that should not be imposed in a just society, particularly where the penalty is applied arbitrarily and the procedure itself is inhumane.” She suggested Gray’s ...

Judge Denies Preliminary Injunction Request In Ricky Gray Execution

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Virginia Inmate Executed Despite Arguments Against Drug 'cocktail

... in Alabama, Arizona, Ohio and Oklahoma. Pharmaceutical manufacturers have stopped making some drugs available for use in executions, and Virginia state law allows the vendor's identity to remain secret. Arizona last month reached a settlement with lawyers for death row inmates that would bar midazolam from use in executions. Gray was sentenced to die for the 2006 slayings of sisters Ruby Harvey, 4, and Stella Harvey, 9, in Richmond. He also killed their parents, Bryan Harvey, 49, and Kathryn Harvey, 39. His accomplice, Ray Dandridge, was sentenced to life. The pair also killed Ashley Baskerville, 21, who had been a lookout when Gray killed the Harveys as well as her mother, Mary Tucker, 47, and stepfather Percyell Tucker, 55. Gray has said he is willing to die by firing squad, which is not an option for executions in Virginia. Gray's execution marks the second in the United States this year. The United States has executed more than 1,450 people since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. (Reporting by Ian Simpson; ...

I Robbed Harveys Of A Lifetime Of Joy

... and child advocates are urging Gov. Terry Mc Auliffe to spare the life of the convicted killer. With a week until his scheduled execution , his attorneys sent a letter to the governor saying Gray was raped repeatedly by his brother as a child and began using drugs to deal with the effects of that abuse. Gray also issued a statement in the letter and expressed remorse about the killing of the Harvey family on New Year's Day in 2006. "Mr. Gray is an important example of someone who needed an advocate to intervene while he was a small child and subjected to terrifying abuse at the hands of his family members, or when he was a young boy and desperately turned to drugs in an attempt to numb the painful impact of this abuse," the letter said. "But now we all must face the stark truth that no one did intervene. We urge you to consider this failure and intervene to commute Mr. Gray’s ...

The View From A Cell Near Death Row

... is Greensville Correctional Center in Jarrett, in a cellblock next to the one that houses Ricky Gray, the inmate scheduled to be put to death today for the heinous 2006 murders of a family in Richmond. As you might imagine, John and his fellow inmates have a different perspective than most and virtually a front row seat to the what he described as a “circus.” It’s far and away a different description from the mundane routine of prison life John has described to me over the years. John was rather adamant about his point of view. He is scheduled for release in July 2020. No matter what happens, he has that date to look forward to. “It seems like a long way off, but I remember when I first arrived here and I know I’m closer to getting out than I was then, but I can’t imagine how awful it would be, being where I am now with no hope of ever getting out.”. Several other inmates, John said, would rather face a date with the executioner than the possibility of growing old ...

Ricky Gray Set To Be Executed For Killing Virginia Family

... and 4-year-old sister, Ruby. (Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star via AP). THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Monday, January 16, 2017, 10:50 AM. RICHMOND, Va. — More than 11 years after the brutal murders of a well-known Richmond family, some hope the execution of the man convicted of the killings will close a painful chapter of this community’s history. Ricky Gray is scheduled to be put to death on Jan. 18 for the murders of 9-year-old Stella Harvey and 4-year-old sister, Ruby. 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 Ashley Baskerville, her mother and stepfather less than a week later, but was never tried in that case. *FILE* Kathryn and Bryan Harvey May 17, 1996, file photo, at their store in Richmond, Va. Firefighters found the couple and their two children slain Sunday, Jan 1, 2006, while responding to a blaze at their Richmond home.(AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, ...