U.S. Supreme Court denies a request from a death row inmate in Oklahoma to stop his upcoming lethal injection.
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.exposes him to a constitutionally unacceptable risk of severe pain, and they had asked the court to reinstate him as a plaintiff in a separate lawsuit challenging Oklahoma’s protocol. But a federal judge denied that request, a decision that was upheld by both an appellate court and now the U.S. Supreme Court.
Grant was convicted and sentenced to die for killing two Del City hotel workers during a robbery in 2001.
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