Grant's execution would be Oklahoma's first since capital punishment was paused in 2015 after a series of botched and flawed executions.
Those state-run institutions were the subject of"a widespread, nationally publicized scandal" due to the horrific abuse of children, the petition noted.
Grant left Oklahoma's juvenile institutions without receiving counseling or treatment, and with no marketable skills to enter the workforce, the petition said, and was sent to an adult prison after committing a robbery at 17. "John Grant never had a chance in life due to the severe abuse he suffered first at the hands of his mother and later in state-run institutions in Oklahoma whose horrific mistreatments are a well-documented scandal," Sarah Jernigan, an assistant federal public defender representing Grant, said in a statement provided to"Yet he is deeply remorseful for his actions and has worked to redeem himself while incarcerated.
"Jurors never heard that Mr. Grant killed Ms. Gay Carter while in the heat of passion and despair over the abrupt end of the deepest and most important adult relationship of his life," the petition said."And, the jury did not hear about Mr. Grant's childhood of poverty and neglect or about his tragic background of institutional childhood abuse at the hands of the State of Oklahoma.
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