Jimmy Lee Gray
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| Born | September 25, 1948 Whittier, California, U.S. |
| Died | September 2, 1983 (aged 34) |
| Cause of death | Executed (botched) by gas chamber |
| Criminal status | Executed |
| Convictions | Arizona Second degree murder Mississippi Capital murder |
| Criminal penalty | Arizona 20 years to life Mississippi Death |
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| States | Arizona and Mississippi |
Jimmy Lee Gray (September 25, 1948 – September 2, 1983) was an American criminal convicted for the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of three-year-old Deressa Jean Scales in 1976. At the time of this murder, he was free on parole after serving seven years of a 20-year-to-life sentence for the 1968 murder of his 16-year-old girlfriend, Elda Louise Prince, in Parker, Arizona. Scales's parents later sued the state of Arizona for releasing Gray.