Supreme Court permits execution of Oklahoma inmate John Grant, reversing federal appeals court decision
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A man on death row in Oklahoma is scheduled to die Thursday afternoon after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a federal appeal court's stay of his execution. John Marion Grant's execution is set for 4 p.m. CT, one of two the court is letting proceed.
In a 5-3 vote, the Supreme Court ruled earlier Thursday that Grant's execution, as well as Julius Jones' November 18 execution, could move forward. Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented, while Justice Neil Gorsuch did not take part in the decision.
Jones still has a clemency hearing with the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board on Monday.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.