rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/stop-the-execution-of-john-grant-in-oklahoma?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-stop-the-execution-of-john-grant-in-oklahoma' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Death Penalty Action https://actionnetwork.org/groups/death-penalty-action https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/petitions/photos/000/301/916/normal/facebook-001-3.jpg John Grant is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on October 28, 2021 for the 1998 murder of Gay Carter. John Grant's execution, if it goes forward, will be Oklahoma's first in more than 5 years - the state's previous execution being in 2015. Mr. Grant has taken full responsibility for the crime, has apologized to the victim’s family, and remains a deeply remorseful man who is deserving of grace and mercy from Oklahoma, the State that abused its duty to him when he was a mere child in need of guidance and rehabilitation, entrusted to its care. Mr. Grant’s jurors were not informed that when he was a child of 12 years old – a product of poverty and neglect – he stole clothes and shoes for younger siblings, eventually being sent to a notorious Oklahoma juvenile facility and subjected to years of horrifying abuse there. Further, respected experts who have since reviewed the whole of Mr. Grant’s trial, have concluded that Mr. Grant received “one of the most incompetently assembled and presented” death penalty sentencing defenses ever seen. In scheduling an execution after so many years without one, Oklahoma makes itself an outlier in its use of the death penalty. The majority of other states are on a downward trend of executions, and increasingly, states are abolishing the practice altogether, including the southern state of Virginia, which repealed its death penalty law earlier this year. Please sign the petition asking Governor Stitt and the Pardon and Parole Board to do everything within their power to ensure Jones does not face execution and to seek a path to clemency in the case. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-execution-of-john-grant-in-oklahoma