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John Marion Grant, 60, was convicted in 1998 and given the death sentence for fatally stabbing prison cafeteria worker Gay Carter.

An order from the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver temporarily blocked scheduled executions of Oklahoma death row inmates John Marion Grant and Julius Jones.

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the impending executions of two Oklahoma death row inmates, including the lethal injection of one inmate scheduled for later Thursday. 

The men Oklahoma is trying to kill are part of an ongoing lawsuit over whether the state’s lethal injection protocol constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

Oklahoma’s prison director said the state is ready to conduct its first execution in nearly seven years.

Update on the Oklahoma executions available here and in BLOX:

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit granted a temporary motion for stay of execution for two Oklahoma death row inmates on Wednesday, just a day before one of the inmates was scheduled to die by lethal injection. 

Oklahoma’s first execution since January 2015 is set for Thursday, pending any last-minute action.

A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled Monday that the state can move forward with scheduled lethal injections for five death row inmates, including Julius Jones, whose case has drawn...

A federal judge on Monday ruled that Oklahoma could proceed with the lethal injections of five death row inmates, with the earliest execution scheduled for this week.