Donald Anthony Grant he is scheduled to die by lethael injection on January 27th in Oklahoma

On July 18, 2001, Grant entered a LaQuinta Inn in Del City, ostensibly to fill out an employment application. In reality, Grant had planned to rob the hotel in order to obtain money to post bond for a girlfriend, Shlonda Gatewood (who was in the Oklahoma County Jail at the time), and was prepared to kill any witnesses to the crime. Grant may have been motivated to strike this particular business because another girlfriend of his, Cheryl Tubbs, had been fired from employment there a few months before; in any event, Grant was familiar with the layout of the property and the location of video surveillance equipment.

When Grant saw the hotel manager, Brenda McElyea, he approached her with a pistol in his hand and ordered her to walk to a storage room, where he fatally shot her once in the head, and slashed her neck and back with a box knife to make sure the knife was sharp enough to use on his next victim. Grant then left the storage room and approached another employee, Suzette Smith, in the break room. Grant ordered Smith at gunpoint to give him the money from the hotel register, which she did. Grant then ordered Smith to walk back to the manager’s office, where he shot her three times in the face. Smith continued to struggle to escape, so Grant brutally beat her and cut her numerous times with his knife. He hit Smith in the head with his pistol, attempted to break her neck, and threw a computer monitor on her head in an effort to stop her struggling. Eventually, Smith succumbed to her wounds and died in the office. Before leaving the office, Grant took personal property from Smith’s purse.

Grant then left the hotel and walked to a nearby discount store, where he abandoned his pistol and some traveler’s checks he had taken in the robbery. He then called a cab to take him to the home of Cheryl Tubbs. Later that day, Grant used money from the robbery to pay Shlonda Gatewood’s bond, which was about $200. Grant and Gatewood then used a stolen car to drive from Oklahoma City to New York City, where Grant had family. About a month after the murders, Grant was arrested in New York and returned to Oklahoma.

Grant has been on death row since January 23, 2006.

Matthew Reeves who is also scheduled to die on January 27th January execution date for Alabama man convicted in slaying of Willie Johnson in Dallas County, Alabama in 1996.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama has set a January execution date for an inmate convicted of the 1996 shotgun slaying of a man who towed his car after it broke down.

The Alabama Supreme Court on Thursday set a Jan. 27 lethal injection date for Matthew Reeves.

Reeves was sentenced to death for the November 1996 murder of Willie Johnson in Dallas County, Alabama. Prosecutors said that after Johnson gave Reeves a ride that Reeves stuck a shotgun through the rear window of the truck cab and fatally shot Johnson in the neck.

In earlier court filings, Reeves’ attorneys have argued he has an IQ in the 60s and that his trial counsel failed to do enough to show he is intellectually disabled.

Admin Comments: I have no respect for these two people at all. they deserve what they get and I'm standing by my decision that if you take a life the state should take yours. it isnt a white thing or a black thing that is just the way life is.