MCALESTER, OKLA. — A 60-year-old Oklahoma man, who stabbed a prison cafeteria worker to death in 1998, received a lethal injection Thursday afternoon.
Grant is the state’s first attempt to administer the death penalty since a series of flawed executions more than six years ago.
The execution almost didn’t happen.
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling earlier Thursday that allowed executions too resume.
The ruling reversed a stay of execution put in place by the 10th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday.
Julius Jones is the next scheduled execution on November 18.