Usa: he had asked to be shot, executed by injection

(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 28 - A prisoner on death row in Oklahoma who had asked for execution was executed by lethal injection.

This is the first death sentence carried out in the United States in 2022. Donald Grant - guilty of the murders of two women in 2001 - and Gilbert Postelle had asked a federal judge to authorize their executions by firing squad because it was considered a "quicker and more painless" method.

    "Justice is now being done for Brenda McElyea, Felecia SuzetteSmith and the people of Oklahoma," the state attorney general said in a statement. Postelle's execution is scheduled for February 17.

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