The first executions since 2015 in Oklahoma were scheduled Monday. They’re slated to start on Oct. 28. Oklahoma officials say the seven inmates scheduled to be executed have exhausted all of the appeals and that no further legal impediments to their executions remain, state judges said. Additionally, the inmates last month who had joined a lawsuit challenging the state’s lethal injection protocols were dropped because they did not designate an alternative method of execution to the three-drug combination that the state plans on using. “Based upon a thorough review of the record before this Court, we find that the setting of execution dates in these cases is now appropriate and required” due to state law, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals Judges Scott Rowland, Robert Judson, Gary Lumpkin, and David Lewis wrote in the scheduling order. John Marion Grant, convicted of first-degree murder for killing Gay Carter, a food service supervisor at …