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Gray remains on death row at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. As a United States Armed Forces member, Gray cannot be executed until the president approves the death sentence. On July 28, 2008, President George W. Bush approved Gray's execution, making Gray the first service member sentenced to death since 1961. [1]
The United States Disciplinary Barracks (USDB), colloquially known as Leavenworth, is a military correctional facility [2] located on Fort Leavenworth, a United States Army post in Kansas. It is one of two major prisons built on Fort Leavenworth property, the other is the military Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility , which opened on 5 ...
The first four of these executions, those of Bernard John O'Brien, Chastine Beverly, Louis M. Suttles and James L. Riggins, were carried out by military officials at the Kansas State Penitentiary near Lansing, Kansas. The remaining six executions took place in the boiler room of the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Fort Leavenworth Military Prison Cemetery (also known as the United States Disciplinary Barracks Cemetery) is a cemetery maintained by the Fort Leavenworth Military Prison, Leavenworth County, Kansas. The purpose of this cemetery is for the burial of unclaimed bodies of soldiers who died in the United States Disciplinary Barracks. [2]
Dwight Jeffrey Loving (born c. 1968) was one of six US military personnel on death row until Barack Obama commuted his sentence to life without parole on January 17, 2017. . Loving, a private in the United States Army, was sentenced to death following his conviction for murdering two soldiers, working as part-time taxi drivers on December 24, 1
1827: Colonel Henry Leavenworth chose site for new fort. 1875: Fort chosen as the site for a military prison. Within a year, Fort Leavenworth housed more than 300 prisoners in a remodeled, supply-depot building. 1894: Secretary of War conceded to the House Appropriations Committee that War Department could do without the military prison.