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| Board endorses prisons boss despite problematic executions |
| By fairfieldcitizenonline.com- Sean Murphy |
| Published: 11/11/2015 |
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The head of Oklahoma's prison system, whose tenure has been marred by problems with three scheduled lethal injections and now a grand jury inquiry into those complications, received a vote of confidence this week from the agency's governing board. Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has been less forthcoming with a full-throated endorsement of Department of Corrections Director Robert Patton. After learning last month that Oklahoma's last execution in January was carried out using the wrong drug, Fallin said she wants to wait and see what's uncovered by Attorney General Scott Pruitt's investigation before publicly backing Patton. The position was reiterated Thursday by Fallin's spokesman, Alex Weintz, when asked whether the governor still had confidence in Patton's ability to run the agency effectively. "We have confidence that we're going to get better as an agency and a state government, and one of the ways we're going to do that is supporting the attorney general's inquiry and waiting for the results of that," Weintz said. "Our interest isn't in finger pointing or in blame." Read More. |
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