Jimmy Lee Gray

Jimmy Lee Gray
Born(1948-09-25)September 25, 1948
DiedSeptember 2, 1983(1983-09-02) (aged 34)
Cause of deathExecuted (botched) by gas chamber
Criminal statusExecuted
ConvictionsArizona
Second degree murder
Mississippi
Capital murder
Criminal penaltyArizona
20 years to life
Mississippi
Death
Details
Victims
  • Elda Louise Prince, 16
  • Deressa Jean Scales, 3
Date
  • January 5, 1968
  • June 25, 1976
StatesArizona 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.