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Heres whats happening. a scare a few hours ago for florida senator marco rubio. his plane made an emergency landing in new mexico after electrical problems. he was headed for iowa. the drought that hit half of the nation is drying up parts of the mississippi river. 1890 billion dollars worth of goods are shipped on the mississippi. now back to "lockup." due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. indiana state prison is the only facility in the state with an execution cha...

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Going down, i probably would have fell all the way to the floor. >> we have four holding cells that are here on death watch. we have staff that work back here on 12-hour shifts when we activate this. staff are trained to work in this environment. and theyre all volunteers. >> you know its serious business, of course. everything is very clinical and methodical. and, of course, as each hour goes by, you get closer and closer. >> this is the execution chamber. as youll notice, there is an electric ...

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...

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 leave death row for the execution c...

>> 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 ...

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 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 actually still has an electric chai...

They dont read the mail. they mail clerk doesnt -- i dont think she would have time to read the mail, even if she wanted to. >> this letter is from steven parker to an inmate named reese. >> kyra gyden is in charge of reading the mail at holman. she has just intercepted one of parkers unauthorized letters containing insulting language about warden culliver. >> he wrote "culliver," im not going to read all of that because its a lot of cussing in it. "hes an idiot, treats everyone like inferiors o...

This is the electric chair, which is maintained by the kentucky state penitentiary, in order to complete executions by electrocution. it was originally built somewhere in the 1900s. >> over the past century, kentuckys most notorious criminals have spent their final days at the castle. 163 have died by electrocution here. the most recent execution in the chair occurred in 1997. >> on one date in 1929, there were seven inmates executed in one night, utilizing this chair and facility. >> kentucky s...

Escort the condemned from his death cell into the execution chamber and place him on the gurney. the microphone is basically used to read the death warrant to the condemned and also to allow the condemned to make a last statement. >> prior to being arrested and going to arraignment, i didnt even know alabama had a death penalty. so, when the judge told me the sentences that i faced, i didnt think he was telling the truth. from that point on, yeah, i knew i was coming to death row. i knew i was g...