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   McALESTER, Okla. - Oklahoma administered the death penalty   
   Thursday on a man who convulsed and vomited as he was executed   
   for the 1998 slaying of a prison cafeteria worker, ending a six-   
   year execution moratorium brought on by concerns over its   
   execution methods.   
      
   John Marion Grant, 60, who was strapped to a gurney inside the   
   execution chamber, began convulsing and vomiting after the first   
   drug, the sedative midazolam, was administered. Several minutes   
   later, two members of the execution team wiped the vomit from   
   his face and neck.   
      
   Before the curtain was raised to allow witnesses to see into the   
   execution chamber, Grant could be heard yelling, "Let's go!   
   Let's go! Let's go!" He delivered a stream of profanities before   
   the lethal injection started. He was declared unconscious about   
   15 minutes after the first of three drugs was administered and   
   declared dead about six minutes after that, at 4:21 p.m.   
      
   Someone vomiting while being executed is rare, according to   
   observers.   
      
   "I’ve never heard of or seen that," said Robert Dunham,   
   executive director of the nonpartisan Death Penalty Information   
   Center. "That is notable and unusual."   
      
   Michael Graczyk, a retired Associated Press reporter who still   
   covers executions for the organization on a freelance basis, has   
   witnessed the death penalty being carried out about 450 times.   
   He said Thursday he could only recall one instance of someone   
   vomiting while being put to death.   
      
   The Oklahoma attorney general and governor did not respond to   
   questions about Grant's reactions to the drugs. In fact,   
   Department of Corrections spokesman Justin Wolf said by email   
   that the execution "was carried out in accordance with Oklahoma   
   Department of Corrections' protocols and without complication."   
      
   A statement from Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt referenced a   
   section of the Oklahoma Constitution in which voters   
   overwhelmingly enshrined the death penalty.   
      
   "Today, the Department of Corrections carried out the law of the   
   State of Oklahoma and delivered justice to Gay Carter’s family,"   
   Stitt said.   
      
   Grant was the first person in Oklahoma to be executed since a   
   series of flawed lethal injections in 2014 and 2015. He was   
   serving a 130-year prison sentence for several armed robberies   
   when witnesses say he dragged prison cafeteria worker Gay Carter   
   into a mop closet and stabbed her 16 times with a homemade   
   shank. He was sentenced to die in 1999.   
      
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   "At least now we are starting to get justice for our loved   
   ones," Carter's daughter, Pamela Gay Carter, said in a   
   statement. "The death penalty is about protecting any potential   
   future victims. Even after Grant was removed from society, he   
   committed an act of violence that took an innocent life. I pray   
   that justice prevails for all the other victims' loved ones. My   
   heart and prayers go out to you all."   
      
   Oklahoma moved forward with the lethal injection after the U.S.   
   Supreme Court, in a 5-3 decision, lifted stays of execution that   
   were put in place on Wednesday for Grant and another death row   
   inmate, Julius Jones, by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.   
      
   The state’s Pardon and Parole Board twice denied Grant’s request   
   for clemency, including a 3-2 vote this month to reject a   
   recommendation that his life be spared.   
      
   Oklahoma had one of the nation’s busiest death chambers until   
   problems in 2014 and 2015 led to a de facto moratorium. Richard   
   Glossip was just hours away from being executed in September   
   2015 when prison officials realized they received the wrong   
   lethal drug. It was later learned the same wrong drug had been   
   used to execute an inmate in January 2015.   
      
   The drug mix-ups followed a botched execution in April 2014 in   
   which inmate Clayton Lockett struggled on a gurney before dying   
   43 minutes into his lethal injection — and after the state’s   
   prisons chief ordered executioners to stop.   
      
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   While the moratorium was in place, Oklahoma moved ahead with   
   plans to use nitrogen gas to execute inmates, but ultimately   
   scrapped that idea and announced last year that it planned to   
   resume executions using the same three-drug lethal injection   
   protocol that was used during the flawed executions. The three   
   drugs are: midazolam, a sedative, vecuronium bromide, a   
   paralytic, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.   
      
   Oklahoma prison officials recently announced that they had   
   confirmed a source to supply all the drugs needed for Grant's   
   execution plus six more that are scheduled to take place through   
   March.   
      
      
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