OKLAHOMA CITY, May 1 (UPI) -- Prison guards used a Taser to restrain Clayton Lockett hours before he died in an apparently botched execution, Oklahoma's top corrections official said Thursday.
The information was provided in a timeline that Robert Patton, director of the department of corrections, sent to Gov. Mary Fallin. Patton said Lockett was supposed to be X-rayed Tuesday morning as part of the execution procedure and was tasered shortly before 6 a.m. when he refused to allow guards to put restraints on him to escort him to the medical unit.