A convicted murderer vomited and experienced convulsions as he was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Oklahoma on Thursday, witnesses said. Grant, who is Black, was sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of a white prison cafeteria worker, Gay Carter. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections said later Thursday Grant's execution went as planned. For Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, Grant "became a human experiment for the other death row prisoners' challenge to Oklahoma's execution process." Another Oklahoma death row inmate, Julius Jones, a 41-year-old African-American man, is scheduled to be executed on November 18 for the 1999 shooting of a white businessman.

Source: Mint October 29, 2021 15:39 UTC