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so walk us through. >> hey, fred. this is a big day yesterday. when we got this document. we learned a lot, frankly. and you almost never get this level of transparency. these are documents that the doj wanted to keep secret. thankfully it was released yesterday with some redactions. remember the timeline here. this was the warrant application that they submitted to get permission to search mar-a-lago. that came months after the national archives had already gone to mar-a-lago to retri...

Codington, the man who was executed on thursday. his lawyers say he had a drug addiction and that led him to his violent crime of killing his friend by usings a hammer to steal money to pay for his drug habit. but now his lawyers say that he is remorseful. as he was remorseful and that he should not have been executed. they asked for clemency. and the state board granted that clemency. approved it on a 3-2 vote. but as you just heard fred say, the governor denied clemency and so he was the first...

Now. excellent reporting. thank you so much for that. well, oklahoma has executed the first of 25 death row inmates it intend to put to death over the next two years. >> 50-year-old james connington was sentenced to die for the 1997 murder of a 73-year-old man. oklahomas governor refused to commute his sentence despite a recommendation from the states pardon and parole board. lets bring in cnns nadia romero to talk about this. nadia, the state is defending its decision to go through with the e...

Oklahoma has executed james codington, the first of 25 death row executions that officials plan to carry out in the next two years. he was sentenced to die after his 1997 first-degree murder conviction. he was executed by lethal injection on thursday after gop governor kevin stitt denied his request for clemency. cnns nadia romero joins us now. and critics say that questions remain about whether some of these inmates are innocent or have a type of mental fitness that should disqualify them being...