nikki haley s pat the victory, impossible no difficult yes. the lead starts now. in south carolina nikki haley gets ready to make a new pitch, why she says she should stay in the race in losses in iowa and after, more gop heavyweights are urging her to get out. her number 1-man will be here as nikki haley assesses her campaign. a big endorsement for president biden as campaign 2020 for its closing in on a race between president biden and donald trump and a new mystery involving russia when a plane crashes with conflicting accounts about who or what was on board the plane. was it 65 ukrainian prisoners of of war or was it weapons for war as ukraine says? welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. republican voters delivering donald trump another victory sending them one step closer to the white house. nikki haley s campaign insists they still see a path forward to dethrone donald trump after his double-digit victory in new hampshire. in the modern history of elections it i
ray and his lawyer argued that by not allowing the imam in the execution chamber and only allowing a christian chaplain, alabama s execution procedure treated inmates differently according to their faith. it favored christian inmates by allowing them to have their faith leader with them but nobody else of any other faith. the federal appeals court agreed, at least they staid that execution so they could consider it. that happened on wednesday eyes this week, two days ago. lawyers for the state of alabama filed an emergency petition asking the u.s. supreme court to step in, specifically to let the execution move forward, and last night in a 5-4 decision they did that. the justices on the u.s. supreme court voted to let that execution go forward as planned. justice elena kagan wrote a blistering very short three-page dissent. quoting from that, she says, quote, this court excuse me. quote, today, this court reverses that decision and
one employee in missouri quit over the boredom saying, quote, i think for the entire month of december i processed six applications and that was pretty good. in one arkansas office, workers are required to be on the clock but are not allowed to do any work. a man on death row in missouri was scheduled to die by lethal injection last night. but supreme court justice samuel elito stepped in. why was there a problem with this execution? the state of missouri says there isn t any problem with this execution procedure. but bucklew and his attorneys argue his condition makes it extremely likely the convicted killer would suffer excruciating pain during his execution. and that would violate the
a search-and-rescue mission are under way for seven marines. their helicopter crashed during a routine training exercise between pensacola and destin. in the meantime those could it be cruel and unusual punishment or just an alternate execution procedure? utah lawmakers voted yesterday to bring back the use of executions by firing squad. as long as legal injections are unavailable at least 30 days before the scheduled execution. the measure passed 18-10 and the sponsor of the bill spent 45 seconds explaining it. no one asked him any questions or asked to speak. the bill now goes to republican governor. he s not said whether he ll sign the measure. according to the death penalty information center there s been