US Supreme Court declines to halt pending Oklahoma execution
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January 26, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a request from a death row inmate in Oklahoma to stop his upcoming lethal injection.
In a brief order, the court indicated 46-year-old Donald Grant's application for a temporary stay of execution was denied. The decision paves the way for Grant to receive a lethal injection at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.
Grant's attorneys had argued that Oklahoma's three-drug protocol exposes him to a constitutionally unacceptable risk of severe pain, and they had asked the court to reinstate him as a plaintif...
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