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The execution of John Grant (April 12, 1961 – October 28, 2021) took place in the U.S. state of Oklahoma by means of lethal injection. Grant was sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of prison cafeteria worker Gay Carter.
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He was convicted on a first-degree murder charge and sentenced to death in 2000. On Nov. 13, 1998, Grant was serving time for armed robbery when he fatally stabbed 58-year-old Gay Carter with a sharpened screwdriver in a kitchen at the Dick Conner Correctional Center in Hominy.
Earlier this month, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 againstrecommending Gov. Stitt grant clemency to Grant. Grant’s clemency petition said he never had a chance in life after being born to a single mother of nine children in abject poverty, growing up in a crime-plagued Oklahoma City housing project and having to steal food to help f...
For his last meal, John Marion Grant ordered two bacon cheeseburgers with onion, tomato, pickles, lettuce and mustard, as well as barbeque chips and a 2-liter bottle of Mr. Pibb. He also requested a half-gallon of Neapolitan ice cream and a large pack of Nutter Butter sandwich cookies.
Oklahoma’s last scheduled execution was Sept. 30, 2015. Authorities stopped the execution after a doctor discovered the wrong deadly drug — potassium acetate — had been supplied. Officials said afterward the same mistake had been made in an execution in January of that year. A state grand jury blamed faulty protocols as well as failures by correcti...
- Josh Dulaney
- Staff Writer
Nov 4, 2021 · Before the state of Oklahoma put John Marion Grant through the 12-minute ordeal of convulsions, vomiting, and heaving that eventually concluded with the 60-year-old’s death, it gave him a...
Oct 29, 2021 · John Marion Grant, who was given a death sentence in 1999 for fatally stabbing cafeteria worker Gay Carter while in prison, was given a lethal injection on Thursday afternoon. He reportedly...
- Josh Marcus
- 2 min
Oct 28, 2021 · Grant was convicted in 2000 of first-degree murder for killing prison worker Gay Carter in the kitchen of the Dick Conner Correctional Facility in 1998. Before that killing, Grant was...
Feb 14, 2022 · John Marion Grant was the first death row inmate to be executed in Oklahoma in over six years. He convulsed and vomited for 15 minutes during the lethal injection procedure. Grant's autopsy...
John Grant (musician) John William Grant (born July 25, 1968) is an American singer, musician, and songwriter. He first became known as the co-founder, lead singer, pianist, and primary songwriter for the alternative rock band the Czars. After releasing six albums from 1994 to 2006, the band split up and Grant retired for four years before ...
