Oklahoma asks US Supreme Court to lift execution stays
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WBAL Radio 1090 AM - Oklahoma asks US Supreme Court to lift execution stays
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma administered the death penalty Thursday on a man who...
John Marion Grant, 60, was strapped to a gurney in the execution chamber and given the sedative midazolam as he became the first person in the state to be executed for six years.
Oklahoma inmate John Marion Grant convulsed and vomited Thursday during an execution that happened after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay in a 5-3 vote.
John Grant was first person put to death in Oklahoma six years after state botched series of lethal injections.