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While theyve been incarcerated. >> i have a hope that one day i can be out of prison, you know. even though that hope might be small. i know that what i done was wrong. i deserve to be where im at. ive accepted whatever might come. >> what the future holds for haight is not certain. his case is still on appeal. but one day he might take the same walk our "lockup" crew took when they shot at kentucky state. >> kentucky is one of the states that actually still has an electric chair. i asked we wan...

Clayton lockett was led to the execution chamber while charles warner waited in the wings. zeva bransetter witnessed the execution. >> it was my fourth execution to witness. it was scheduled for 6:00. eventually, they roll up the shade at 6:20. lockett was asked if he had a last statement, and he just said no. >> at 6:23 p.m., lockett was injected with midazolam to render him unconscious. >> at 6:31, the doctor checked consciousness, and the warden announced that the inmate was still conscious. ...

>> we gave cameras to inmates on death row as well. 28-year-old ben richie was here for having shot and killed a police officer. >> this aint no joke. they execute people here, and if you dont work on your case on death row theyll march your ass over there and strap you to that table and murder you. on death row our cells are a little bigger than populations, but id rather have one of them smaller cells. [ bleep ], id rather go home. >> richie recalled the last time he watched a fellow inmate le...

>> tim young represented mcguire in his final appeals. >> when we went to court with mr. mcguire we argued that midazolam was likely to leave him in severe pain, almost torture, as if he were drowning or, or unable to breathe and choking and gasping for air. >> but arguing the dangers of midazolam presented an unnerving catch-22. >> the burden of proof is so high to say its going to go bad that it has to go bad. >> he said the accused was not entitled to a pain-free execution. >> they believe th...

Hand. they had different drugs. and nobody knows how the screw-up happened. but now because of that oklahoma has scotched its plans to kill all three of the prisoners who they had lined up next for the execution chamber, including richard glossip, whose namesake supreme court case this summer paved the way for continued legal lethal injections, even amidst the chaos that reigns in the states right now over the drugs used in that kind of killing. justice stephen breyer wrote a remarkable dissent ...

Bizarre last-minute screw-up where they were less than two hours away from killing a prisoner whose case had gone all the way to the supreme court but less than two hours before that killing as the state unpact their execution kit they realized that they didnt actually have the drugs on hand they thought they would have on hand. they had different drugs. and nobody knows how the screw-up happened. but now because of that oklahoma has scotched its plans to kill all three of the prisoners who they...

Can be out of prison, you know. even though that hope might be small. i know that what i done was wrong. i deserve to be where im at. ive accepted whatever might come. >> what the future holds for haight is not certain. his case is still on appeal. but one day he might take the same walk our "lockup" crew took when they shot at kentucky state. >> kentucky is one of the states that actually still has an electric chair. i asked we want to make sure we get a shot of the electric chair. so we go to ...

Controversy between the branches of our government. >> the oklahoma supreme court how had second thoughts. the very next day, the oklahoma supreme court dissolved their stay. said that the secrecy statute, in the ruling, they seemed kind of peeved that this process was rushed. but people are calling for their impeachment. >> i felt very disappointed in myself. i was reminded of something my stepfather, who is a lawyer, told me once when i was in law school stressing. he said to me, susanna, just...

>> all executions occur at 6:00 p.m. on that day, the prison goes under lockdown restricting any movement. >> an inmate will be escorted into the cell. there is no property allowed in the cell. everything he would have had in his cell would have been confiscated. if he needs to use the phone, we will allow him to use the phone. his mail is brought to him. he has an opportunity to read it. passes it back out. last year we did one. i think the year before that we probably did three or four. this d...

Portray the good things that theyve done while theyve been incarcerated. >> i have a hope that one day that i can be out of prison, you know. even though that hope might be small. i know that what i done was wrong. i deserve to be where im at. ive accepted whatever might come. >> what the future holds for haight is not yet certain. his case is still on appeal. but one day, he might take the same walk our "lockup" crew took when they shot at kentucky state. >> kentucky is one of the states that a...