<P> On 28 July 2008 , President George W. Bush approved the execution of Former United States Army Private Ronald A. Gray , who had been convicted in April 1988 of multiple murders and rapes . A month later , Secretary of the Army Pete Geren set an execution date of 10 December 2008 and ordered that Gray be put to death by lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex , Terre Haute . The military publicly released Gray 's execution date on 20 November 2008 . On 26 November , however , Gray was granted a stay of execution by federal judge Rogers . In December 2016 , a Kansas federal judge lifted Gray 's stay , moving Gray one step closer to becoming the U.S. military 's first death sentence carried out since 1961 . </P>
<P> On 28 July 2008 , President George W. Bush approved the execution of Former United States Army Private Ronald A. Gray , who had been convicted in April 1988 of multiple murders and rapes . A month later , Secretary of the Army Pete Geren set an execution date of 10 December 2008 and ordered that Gray be put to death by lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex , Terre Haute . The military publicly released Gray 's execution date on 20 November 2008 . On 26 November , however , Gray was granted a stay of execution by federal judge Rogers . In December 2016 , a Kansas federal judge lifted Gray 's stay , moving Gray one step closer to becoming the U.S. military 's first death sentence carried out since 1961 . </P>
when was the last time the us military executed someone
when was the last time the us military executed someone
1961
1961