Oklahoma Tortured John Grant to Death Because He Wouldn’t Commit Suicide
In the pursuit of killing its own citizens, this country has created a bestial regime.
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 choice: How would he like to die?
There were a number of . There was , the barbiturate most recently made infamous by the Trump administration’s last-minute federal-execution ; sodium thiopental, a near-extinct anesthetic once used in medicine and, prompting its , lethal injections; compounded versions—meaning iterations made —of either drug; the state’s preference, a three-drug cocktail starting with midazolam, a benzodiazepine used for sedation and seizure control and the occasional ; or a firing squad, the good old-fashioned kind of killing in which
