Two American states performed convicted murderers on Thursday, the third and fourth death sentences that were carried out in the country this week.
In Oklahoma, a man who was convicted of killing a woman was put to death during a home robbery.
And in Florida another man was executed for the rape and murder of a child and killing her grandmother.
Wendell Grissom, 56, was sentenced to death in Oklahoma for the murder of Amber Matthews from 2005, 23, who was shot in the head while trying to protect the two young daughters of a friend.
Grissom was declared dead 10 minutes after the implementation process in the State fine in Mcalester, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections said in a statement.
It said that the execution was carried out using a three drug protocol: Midazolam, which causes sedation, vecuronium bromide, which increases breathing and potassium chloride that stops the heart.
According to judicial documents, Grissom, a truck driver, and another man, Jessie Johns, in the house of Dreu Kopf, a friend of Matthews, broke with the intention of committing a robbery.
Grissom shot and injured Kopf and killed Matthews as she hid in a bedroom in an attempt to protect the two children from Kopf.
Johns was sentenced to life in prison without a conditional release.
In Florida, Edward James, 63, was also executed by fatal injection, in his case for the rape and murder of 1993 of an eight -year -old girl, Toni Neuner, and the murder of Betty Dick, 58, her grandmother.
The Florida Department of Corrections announced that James was executed on Thursday at 8:15 PM (0015 GMT on Friday) in the Florida State Prison in Raiford, outside of Jacksonville in the north of the state.
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Earlier, on Tuesday this week, Jessie Hoffman, 46, was put to death by nitrogen gas in the southern state of Louisiana.
Hoffman, who was convicted of the rape and murder of Molly Elliott of 1996, a 28-year advertisement director, was the first person to be executed in Louisiana in 15 years.
Only one other US state, Alabama, has executions carried out by nitrogen hypoxia, in which nitrogen gas is pumped into a face mask, stifling the prisoner.
The method was denounced by UN experts as cruel and inhumane.
Aaron Gunches, 53, who was sentenced to death for the murder of Ted Price 2002, his girlfriend's ex-husband, was executed in Arizona on Wednesday.
Grunches had given legal efforts to stop his execution.
The vast majority of the American executions since the Supreme Court recovered the death penalty in 1976, were carried out with the help of deadly injection, although South Carolina performed a man by firing a resident team on 7 March.
There have already been ten executions in the United States this year, after 25 last year.
The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 American states, while three others – California, Oregon and Pennsylvania – have moratoriums.
President Donald Trump is in favor of the death penalty and on his first day at the office called for an extension of their use 'for the most traffic jams'.
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