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Before Grant’s killing, a federal judge suggested his execution could provide evidence for a trial over whether Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol is unconstitutional.

Oklahoma administered the death penalty Thursday on a man who convulsed and vomited as he was executed for the 1998 slaying of a prison cafeteria worker, ending a six-year execution...

WASHINGTON — Was John Grant’s execution botched?

David Neal Cox wrote to the state Supreme Courts chief justice in 2018 saying that he wanted to rescind all appeals and have his execution date set.

The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked Oklahoma executions, including Thursdays scheduled lethal injection of John Marion Grant.

Update on the Oklahoma executions available here and in BLOX:

A federal appeals court granted stays of execution on Wednesday for two Oklahoma inmates who were scheduled to receive lethal injections in the coming weeks, the AP reports....

Oklahomas pushing to conduct its first execution in nearly seven years on Thursday ahead of several more scheduled through March.

OKLAHOMA CITY — State corrections officials said Wednesday that theyre continuing to explore the possibility of using inert gases to conduct future executions.

Oklahoma prison officials announced John Marion Grant was executed. Grants time of death was 4:21 p.m.