By Chris McDaniel | BuzzFeed
The head of Oklahoma’s Department of Corrections has overseen three scheduled executions during his brief time in Oklahoma. Each time, there was a major screw-up.
In Robert Patton’s first execution as director, just two months after he started on the job, inmate Clayton Lockett sat up on the gurney after he was declared unconscious and told his executioners, “Shit’s fucking with me.”
Patton called off the execution after realizing it was going awry. Lockett died 45 minutes after his execution began.
