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The execution of John Grant (April 12, 1961 – October 28, 2021) took place in the U.S. state of Oklahoma by means of lethal injection. Grant was sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of prison cafeteria worker Gay Carter.
Oct 28, 2021 · An Oklahoma death row inmate who was executed Thursday convulsed and vomited shortly after receiving the first drug, a witness said, in the state’s first execution since it postponed...
Oct 28, 2021 · On Nov. 13, 1998, Grant was serving time for armed robbery when he fatally stabbed 58-year-old Gay Carter with a sharpened screwdriver in a kitchen at the Dick Conner Correctional Center in Hominy. Lawyers for John Grant cited his childhood in clemency petition.
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Oct 29, 2021 · About 15 minutes into the execution, the media witnesses said, prison personnel declared Grant unconscious and the second and third drugs in Oklahoma’s execution protocol — the paralytic drug vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride, which induces heart failure — were administered.
Feb 14, 2022 · The autopsy, conducted by Tulsa Medical Examiner Jeremy Shelton, M.D., the morning after Grant was executed on October 28, 2021, revealed that Grant suffered pulmonary edema and intramuscular hemorrhaging, and aspirated on his vomit as a result of the lethal injection.
Feb 16, 2022 · The state autopsy on the first inmate executed in Oklahoma in more than six years shows he inhaled his own vomit during the lethal injection procedure. John Marion Grant, 60, was put to death Oct. 28 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.
John Marion Grant was the first death row inmate to be executed in Oklahoma in over six years. He convulsed and vomited for 15 minutes during the lethal injection procedure.
