KFOR News asked Crow if he believed there was any inhumanity regarding Grant vomiting due to the midazolam injection, saying witness descriptions of Grant’s reaction to the drug were quite graphic and disturbing. That’s exactly the occurrence, and I actually had a direct view or vision of the process, and that’s basically what happened.” There’s not anything about what I just said that is overstated or understated. “That’s really the process as it occurred that day.
He simply continued to shout expletives toward staff, at one point looked toward his arm and tried to determine which site the drugs were being passed through, flinched his arm and then laid his head back down, and was, what appeared to be, to have gone to sleep,” Crow said. “And, at no point, other than the regurgitation, did inmate Grant express any discomfort. Supreme Court to have stay of execution for John Grant vacatedĬrow stressed that the execution process was competed in accordance with state statute and department policy. They said he continued breathing until after the second drug was administered. Witnesses told KFOR on Thursday that Grant convulsed around two-dozen times and vomited following the injection of midazolam. “There are some who have referred to that as convulsing.” “There’s different opinions for this – or different explanations as to what occurred next – but at 4:10 p.m., inmate Grant, in my opinion, started dry heaving prior to actually regurgitating while on the table,” Crow said. Grant’s reaction to the drug cocktail changed at 4:10 p.m., according to Crow. He said Grant let out a gasp of air a few seconds later, then continued breathing and lightly snoring. The state executed Grant using a controversial drug cocktail consisting of midazolam, a sedative, vecuronium bromide, a paralytic and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.Ĭrow said he witnessed the execution, and that after the first drug was administered, Grant started to become sedated. The lethal injection began at 4:09 p.m., when ODOC officials administered the first drug of the state’s three-drug protocol. 3-drug cocktail focal point of controversy in Oklahoma’s execution of death row inmates
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