Oklahoma Carries Out Third Consecutive Botched Execution After Yearslong Hiatus
LOADING ERROR LOADING After a six-year pause, Oklahoma carried out its third consecutive botched execution Thursday, causing 60-year-old John Marion Grant to vomit, convulse and curse as he was killed with a lethal injection of three drugs. There should be no more executions in Oklahoma until we go trial in February to address the state’s problematic lethal injection protocol.” John Marion Grant, 60, was executed with a three-drug combination Thursday in Oklahoma. Grant “became a human experiment for the other death-row prisoners’ challenge to Oklahoma execution process,” Robert Dunham, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said in a statement Thursday. Friot claimed the six individuals had failed to offer a reasonable alternative to Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol, something the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled is necessary in these kinds of legal challenges. On Wednesday, an appellate court granted a stay for Grant and Jones, finding there was “nothing in the relevant case law that specifically requires a prisoner to designate a method of execution to be used in his case by ‘checking a box’ when the prisoner has already identified in his complaint the very same alternative methods given as choices on the form.” But in a partisan decision, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated both stays on Thursday, allowing Grant’s execution to proceed.
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