Friday 29 October 2021

Oklahoma botches first execution in 7 years: condemned man "convulsed and vomited", took 21 minutes to die

Fox News reports that Oklahoma, lifting a moratorium on executions, killed its first inmate in 7 years. And Oklahoma botched it, because of course it did [archive.org]. John Marion Grant, on death row because he murdered a prison cafeteria worker, began vomiting as soon as the sedative midazolam was administered—assuming that's what he was administered. — Read the rest