An African-American, sentenced to death for a double murder, is to receive a lethal injection this Thursday in Oklahoma and become the first prisoner executed in 2022 in the United States.
In 2001, Donald Grant, then 25, robbed a hotel in order to steal bail for his imprisoned girlfriend.
Intellectual disabilities
During the attack, he opened fire on two employees of the establishment, killing one instantly and finishing the other with a knife, according to court documents.
In 2005, a jury sentenced him to death for this double murder.
Since then, he has lodged numerous appeals to have his sentence overturned, citing intellectual disabilities in particular.
In a petition posted on the Internet, his defenders claim that he suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome and brain trauma caused by violence inflicted in his childhood by an alcoholic father.
Three shots
His last appeal, relating to the method of execution chosen by Oklahoma (south of the country), was rejected on Wednesday by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Except surprise, Donald Grant, now 46 years old, should therefore receive an injection of three lethal substances, in the penitentiary of McAlester.
This cocktail is suspected of causing excruciating suffering to convicts, which the US Constitution prohibits.
At the end of October, a convict had been shaken by convulsions and had vomited repeatedly after the first injection.
The death penalty continues to decline in the United States, where eleven executions took place in 2021, the lowest in decades.
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