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Oklahoma executed a man Throusday for the death shooting of a woman 20 years ago during domestic invasion and robbery.

Wendell Grissom, a death prisoner, received a deadly injection in Oklahoma penalties in McAlester. The prison official told Joined Journalists, 56, said dead at 10:13 am, this was the first execution in Oklahoma this year and ninth in the United States. Six performed deadly injection, two nitrogen gas, and one separation.

“It took him a total of 13 minutes to die, and it took him a total of two minutes to kill my best friend,” Drew Kopf, who pushed it several times by Grissom, but he managed to escape from home.

Grissom and conflict, Jessie Floyd Johns, are convicted of killing Amber Matthew, 23, and the wounding of its Copf in residence in Kopf County in 2005. Years. Johns was sentenced to life in prison without a conditional.

“I apologize to all of you for hurting,” he told Grissom while attached to Gurney, IV line fastened to his right hand. “I regret that I put that hatred in your heart for me.”

The Minister prayed on the legs of Grissoma because the deadly medications began to flow. He exhaled strongly several times and could hear how to snorce when the doctor entered the executioner chamber and declared him unconscious about five minutes later. It seemed to stop breathing at 10:09, and the color began to drain from his face.

More than two dozen friends of Matthew and the family witnesses witnesses the execution of Grissom.

Prosecutors said that Grissom, who had a long-lasting criminal record, picked up Johnes, who was an autostop, and the two were driving the West on the interstate 40 when they decided to commit robberies. They were randomly selected by Kopf’s home near Watong, where Matthews visited Kopf and her two small children.

Matthews shot twice in his head and left for a living on the floor as a Kopf, also shot twice and seriously wounded, managed to get help, they said help, they said help, they said help. Grissom and Johns also fled, on the stolen four wheels, but quickly ran out of fuel and were trapped after they were driving to the cafe in the nearby district.

Authorities found children Kopf and still inside the house, physically unharmed. Matthews died after the helicopter flew to Oklahoma City Hospital.

Grissovs lawyers did not dispute their guilt, but argued at the debate on the termination of the dancing that he suffered from brain damage that was never presented to the jury. The State Committee for Pardonation and conditionally focused the request of Grissoma.

Grissovi Lawyers told the Committee that he always accepted his responsibility and wrote an apology to Matthews’s family during his first conversation with the police.

“He can’t change the past, but he was now and always asleep and converted deeply,” Christopher said, a lawyer with the Federal Office of the Public Bustic.

Kopf told the board to continue wearing deep mental and physical scars from the attack, including fragments of bullets that remain in her body. She said that in years of attack called 911 when the ringing rings rang or a stranger in her neighborhood appears.

“I lived in an increased state of fear at all times,” she said incurior.

Oklahoma Lawyer Gentner Drummond called Matthew killing the “textbook” case “of the death penalty.

“Crimes committed by Grissom, random, brutal attacks on innocent foreigners in the holiness of their own home, are very kind people holding the waking at night,” Drummond said during the last hearing.

Oklahoma is an access to acquisition and administration of deadly drugs A serious review In recent years, with a state-owned correction office, which was previously charged with the procedures dealing in the chamber, and then faced a large probe of public safety. The state was the first to enable the controversial new method of execution Nitrogen hypoxia In 2015, but to date he never used it. Oklahoma uses a deadly injection cocktail that contains three drugs, starting with a sedative and following with another medicine to paralyze a prisoner and a third to stop heart.

Before Grissoma, the state takes Put the prisoner on death by deadly injection In December.

Three other executions were scheduled this week around the United States: Louisiana put a man into death on Tuesday Use of nitrogen gas for the first time as continued executions after 15-year-old Hiatur. The man who kidnapped and killed a former husband of his girlfriend was performed by deadly injection on Wednesday In Arizona. Another deadly injection is scheduled on Thursday in Florida.

Deadly injection in December Kevin Ray Underwood was 127. the execution of the state of Oklahoma since the US re-reported the death penalty in 1976. year, the records of state prison records.