Oklahoma prison system director Scott Crow said Friday that the state will not change its protocols for lethal injections after the first person Oklahoma has executed since 2015 vomited and contracted after receiving the first drug in the state sequentially killing three drugs.
Journalists who witnessed previous executions said it was extremely rare for a convicted prisoner to vomit during the execution. The New York Times. But Crow said the doctor who monitored John Marion Grant’s execution told him “it’s not a completely uncommon phenomenon” for a person to vomit when he gets a sedative, like the first drug in the Oklahoma execution protocol, he says. Oklahoman.
Last week, Oklahoma was under a moratorium on the death penalty for errors in previous executions.
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