Oklahoma executes man for killing 2 hotel workers after his firing squad request is denied

Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the brutal slayings of two hotel workers during a robbery in 2001. Donald Grant was put to death by lethal injection after a federal judge denied his request to die by firing squad.

Grant, 46, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was declared dead at 10:16 a.m. It was the first execution in the U.S. in 2022 and the third in Oklahoma since the state resumed lethal injections in October following a nearly seven-year hiatus.

"Yo, God, I got this," Grant said while lying strapped to the gurney, delivering his last words for two minutes. "No medication. I didn't take nothing. Brooklyn for life."