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Of the head. >> sell it, sell it, sell it, sell it. thats right. ♪ tell me what im gonna do oh, baby, just tell me what im gonna do ♪ >> idle hands is the devils playground, you know, so i stay busy. ♪ >> you think this can get me on "american idol"? >> the execution team will escort the condemned from the death cell into the execution chamber and place him on a gurney. >> you aint here for going to church. you aint here because you was doing something constructive. you been doing somethin...

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>> hours before her father was executed, lindsay decided to leave indiana and make the long drive home to florida. >> i didnt want to see him die, and so i left. i didnt want to hear anything else about it, i didnt want to see it. i was just ready to go back to my family. >> but later that evening, just three hours before he would walk into the execution chamber, wrinkles would talk to one last person outside the prison walls. he placed a phone call to "lockup" field producer susan carney. >> i ...

>> on one date in 1929, there were seven inmates executed in one night, utilizing this chair and facility. >> kentucky state penitentiary has the only death-row facility in the state. today, there are nearly 40 men whose cells are a stones throw from the execution chamber. one of them is randy haight. >> this is no way to spend your life. one thing about being in prison and being on death row, especially, because theres so much idle time, is youve got a lot of time to examine yourself, think abo...

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...

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 leave death row for the execution chamber. >> his time came for them to kill him, right? and he was standing in fro...

After oklahoma had a terribly botched execution eight weeks ago, the paper devoted significant reporting resources to figuring out whether or not that was just an unforeseeable fluke or whether there is something wrong. whether theres something fishy or fly-by-night or subpar in some way about the way that oklahoma handles this particular state function. the investigation found that oklahoma does not require any regular training for its execution teams. unlike other states. the state does not re...

"the tulsa world" published a three-part series exposing unbelievable details about oklahomas death penalty and the way its administered. todays print edition part two titled "lethal lessons" describes how it works in the death chamber beginning with this unnerving scene. "in a cramp dimly lit room next the to oklahoma state penitentiarys death chamber three volunteer executioners push syringes of lethal drugs into the veins they cannot see." one of the more stunning revelations from todays repo...

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...

It was nothing like that. its all messed up. man, its messed up. it sucks. >> stateville has long been home to some of illinoiss most violent offenders. the vast majority of prisoners are in for murder or violent assault. >> its hard, man. i mean, prison aint nothing nice, you know, but it aint like its they fault, you know. you live a life of crime, this is where youre going to end up. >> stateville has housed its share of infamous criminals. john wayne gacy, convicted of murdering 33 young men...