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January 28, 2022

Oklahoma Executes Donald Grant, the First U.S. Prisoner to Be Put to Death in 2022
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Oklahoma prison officials have carried out the first execution in the
United States this year. Forty-six-year-old Donald Grant was strapped to
a gurney at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in Mc Alester Thursday
morning and injected with a lethal cocktail of three drugs. He was
declared dead at 10:16 a.m. Grant, a Black man, had asked federal courts
to halt his killing, saying Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol
presented an unconstitutional risk of pain and suffering.

It was Oklahoma's third execution since the death penalty was reinstated
after a six-year pause that followed a string of botched executions.
Last October, 60-year-old John Marion Grant convulsed and repeatedly
vomited after he was administered a sedative in an execution that
witnesses described as drawn-out and tortuous.


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