The American state of Oklahoma received permission to hold the first executions six years after the Supreme Court decided not to wait for the end of the trial in which the death penalty protocol was recognized as unconstitutional, reports The Independent.
The first executed six years later, this week will be John Grant, recognized as the murder of a prison employee 23 years ago.
It is noted that after 3 weeks will be executed Julius Jones, convicted of killing a businessman Paul Howell in 1999.
in Oklahoma did not execute anyone since 2015, when two convicts were executed using incorrect doses of deadly injections, which led to what they suffered more than 20 minutes.