US' First Execution Of 2022 Is Man Who Robbed Hotel For Girlfriend's Bail

In 2001, Donald Grant, then aged 25, robbed a hotel to steal bail money for his imprisoned girlfriend.

A man sentenced to death for a double murder was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Thursday in Oklahoma, which would make him the first prisoner executed in the United States this year.

In 2001, Donald Grant, then aged 25, robbed a hotel to steal bail money for his imprisoned girlfriend.

During the robbery, he opened fire on two hotel employees. One died instantly, and the other Grant finished off with a knife, according to court documents.

He was sentenced to death in 2005.