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> SubscriptionThe Latest: Oklahoma prisons boss resigns
> 4 December 2015, 10:20 pm
>          OKLAHOMA CITY 
>       (AP) -- The latest on Oklahoma's
> prisons director resigning (all times local): 4:55 p.m.
> Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says she appreciates the
> contribution that outgoing Department of Corrections
> Director Robert Patton has made to the state's prison
> system. Patton announced Friday he will resign effective
> Jan. 31 and will begin taking accrued leave on Dec. 25. His
> resignation was announced as Attorney General Scott Pruitt
> leads a grand jury investigation into a series of botched
> executions in the state. Fallin says Patton has worked to
> keep state prisons safe for correctional officers and
> inmates and worked to make DOC's internal operations more
> efficient and effective. Fallin says she regrets his
> departure but understands the importance of family and the
> need to be close to loved ones. A spokesman for Pruitt's
> office, Aaron Cooper, declined to comment in Patton's
> resignation. --- 4:35 p.m. The director of Oklahoma's prison
> system is the second high-ranking official to step down amid
> an investigation into a series of botched executions in the
> state. Department of Corrections Director Robert Patton
> announced Friday he will resign effective Jan. 31 and will
> begin taking accrued leave on Dec. 25. In October, the
> department announced that Oklahoma State Penitentiary Warden
> Anita Trammell would no longer report to work and would use
> accrued leave until her retirement date of March 1. Trammell
> was inside the state's execution chamber in April 2014 when
> a botched lethal injection left inmate Clayton Lockett
> writhing on the gurney and mumbling. His execution lasted
> for 43 minutes. The state's investigation, led by Attorney
> General Scott Pruitt, began in October. --- 4:20 p.m. The
> director of Oklahoma's prison system who presided over two
> botched lethal injections is resigning amid an investigation
> into what went wrong with the executions. Department of
> Corrections Director Robert Patton announced Friday that he
> will resign effective Jan. 31. He will begin taking accrued
> leave on Dec. 25. Patton said in a news release he had
> accepted a position in Arizona to be closer to his family.
> In October, Patton appeared before a multicounty grand jury
> that is investigating how the wrong lethal injection drugs
> were used during an execution in January. The same wrong
> drugs were delivered to the prison just hours before an
> execution was to be carried out in September. Patton had
> been on the job a few months when execution of Clayton
> Lockett was botched in April 2014. --- This story has been
> corrected to show that Patton appeared before the grand jury
> in October, not in November.
>
> Police: Facebook led to Ohio teen held captive in Missouri
> 4 December 2015, 10:11 pm
> Investigators discovered Facebook messages they used to
> track down a Cleveland-area teenager who police say ran away
> with a Missouri man only to be raped and held against her
> will for weeks, police said Friday. The 15-year-old girl was
> in serious danger while she was held captive even though she
> may have left willingly, they said. One of the messages,
> prosecutors said, read: "I haven't hurt her, I don't plan on
> it, but she keeps crying." Christopher Schroeder of
> Marthasville, Missouri, was charged with transporting a
> minor to engage in criminal sexual activity and statutory
> rape after he and the girl were found Tuesday at his home
> about 40 miles west of St. Louis. She returned home to the
> Cleveland suburb of Brooklyn on Thursday night and was
> reunited with her family. Court records show Schroeder told
> authorities he thought the girl was 18, but investigators
> said she told him she was 15 more than once. His
> court-appointed attorney declined to comment on Friday.
> Schroeder, who is being held in jail in Missouri, is due in
> court Monday. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty called
> Schroeder a dangerous predator, comparing him to Ariel
> Castro, who kidnapped three young women and held them in a
> Cleveland home for a decade until they were freed by police
> in May 2013. One of those women, Michelle Knight, along with
> the family of fellow captive Gina DeJesus, joined hundreds
> at a rally last month to draw attention to the missing girl.
> She disappeared on Nov. 8 after she went outside to tie up
> her family's dog. Schroeder had been talking with her online
> for at least two weeks, taking advantage of a fragile girl
> who recently had suffered personal problems and persuading
> her to leave with him, Brooklyn police detective Joe
> Tenhunfeld said. Investigators said he picked up the girl
> and removed the memory card from her phone before taking her
> to Missouri. "He knew what he was doing," Tenhunfeld said.
> Once at his house, Schroeder had sex with the girl multiple
> times, smashed her phone and would not allow her to use the
> telephone or Internet without asking, according a criminal
> complaint. He also told her to cut or color her hair and
> lose weight, the court documents said. The teen said she
> told Schroeder that she wanted to go home, but she was
> afraid to leave because he had several guns in the house,
> according to the complaint. The girl's mother alerted
> investigators late last week to postings on a Facebook page
> that allowed them to find more messages and eventually
> locate the girl, Tenhunfeld said.
>
> Order for Arkansas to release execution drugs source on
> hold
> 4 December 2015, 9:56 pm
>          LITTLE ROCK,
> Ark.        (AP) -- Arkansas doesn't
> have to immediately turn over information about the source
> of its execution drugs, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled
> Friday, noting that it was considering the state's request
> for a longer delay. The order offered no details but came
> about an hour before a noon deadline to release the
> information that was set Thursday by Pulaski County Circuit
> Court Judge Wendell Griffen. Griffen sided with death row
> inmates who filed a lawsuit challenging the secrecy portion
> of the state's execution law, saying drug suppliers do not
> have a constitutional right to be free from criticism. The
> Arkansas attorney general's office asked for the temporary
> stay late Thursday, and said it planned to appeal Griffen's
> overall rulings soon. The high court asked attorneys for
> both sides to submit written arguments for whether a longer
> stay should be granted, with the state's brief due first on
> Dec. 14. An attorney for the inmates, Jeff Rosenzweig,
> didn't immediately return a message seeking comment Friday.
> The high court's succinct order didn't detail its reasons
> for granting the stay. Associate Justice Paul E. Danielson
> dissented, but didn't elaborate. The Arkansas Supreme Court
> on Oct. 20 put all eight of the state's scheduled executions
> on hold until the lawsuit could be heard. The inmates have
> argued that without disclosure of the source and other
> information they had no way to determine whether the
> midazolam, vecuronium bromide or potassium chloride obtained
> by the state would lead to cruel and unusual punishment. The
> inmates also argued that the secrecy law violates a
> settlement in an earlier lawsuit that guaranteed inmates
> would be given the information. The state has said that
> agreement is not a binding contract. Griffen agreed with the
> inmates on both arguments Thursday. "It is common knowledge
> that capital punishment is not universally popular," Griffen
> wrote. "That reality is not a legitimate reason to shield
> the entities that manufacture, supply, distribute, and sell
> lethal injection drugs from public knowledge." Griffen also
> noted that a federal judge in Ohio last month granted a
> protective order to allow that state to maintain secrecy
> about the drugs, but said that court erred because it
> accepted "what it acknowledged as no proof of 'a single
> known threat'" as an indicator that disclosing a state's
> source for drugs would pose an undue burden on that state.
> The inmates responded to Arkansas' request for a stay early
> Friday, saying the state had not proven it would be
> irreparably harmed by the disclosure because it already has
> the drugs. Earlier this year, The Associated Press
> identified three pharmaceutical companies that likely made
> Arkansas' lethal injection drugs; each company said it
> objects to its drugs being used for executions. London-based
> Hikma Pharmaceuticals, the likely maker of the state's
> supply of midazolam, previously ended its contract to sell
> pharmaceuticals to Arkansas after the Department of
> Correction tried to use a different drug made by one of its
> subsidiaries for executions. The state has refused to answer
> requests from the company to confirm it has Hikma's
> midazolam. Midazolam, a sedative, gained notoriety after
> being used during executions that took longer than expected
> last year in Arizona, Ohio and Oklahoma. The U.S. Supreme
> Court in June upheld the drug's use in executions. --- This
> story has been corrected to show the Arkansas Supreme Court
> stayed the executions on Oct. 20, not Oct. 16; and that the
> state's brief is due on Dec. 14, not the brief from the
> inmates' attorneys.
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