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Execution, he was also a high school friend of oklahoma republican state representative mike christian. mike christian, his high school friend, is a pro-death penalty legislator. when the clayton locket execution went off the rates last year in oklahoma, representative mike christian decided that he should get involved in oklahoma rethinking its whole approach to how it kills people. >> and then the execution was carried out. it became problematic. again, we got world attention. after that, i re...

Focused right here in this building as the supreme court heads toward two more huge chases -- cases that have the potential to hugely change some controversial policy matters in the country. next week on tuesday, the court will hear the big national case on same-sex marriage, which potentially could legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. or do the opposite. then the day after that, the court will hear the lethal injection case. theyre ruling in that case has the potential to change the death pen...

Nitrogen is unexpensive. you dont need a doctor. >> hes not a doctor or scientist. hes a criminal justice professor at east central university. hes had a lot of other jobs. long career in law and criminal justice. including one incident in assistant attorney general. most importantly, how it is he came to invent the nations newest legal form of execution, he was a high school friend of oklahoma republican state representative mike christian. when the clayton lockett exclusion went off the rails ...

Nitrogen hipoxia. >> its a way basically to go back to killing prisoners with gas. but intell of killing them with cyanide gas like multiple states did until arizona did the last one in 1999, they now want to use nitrogen gas. our producer kate osbourne went to oklahoma to ask how this would work exactly. >> they would use the same place were using now. it would not be a chamber, just a simple mask. this is not a gas chamber, its not poison gas, its an inert gas. you could actually use helium.

Attack. that screwed up case in oklahoma has lead to lethal injection being put on trial next week at the united states supreme court. even without that case, lethal injection has been on hard time because states cant get the drugs they want to use for the injections. the drug companies wont sell to prisons anymore. states were having compounding pharmacies make the drugs by hand. but now they wont do that either. last night we reported in mississippi, mississippi appears to have stockpiled not ...

Mississippi, mississippi appears to have stockpiled not injectable drugs, but rather the raw ingredients to try to make them. they have stockpiled these ingredients at the prison where they kill their prisoners. thus raising the disturbing prospect that mississippi prison officials may be trying to cook this up themselves. like theyre making their own liquor in a prison toilet or something. home brew injectable pharmaceuticals made by corrections officers. what could possibly go wrong? so thats ...

If smnl is thrashing around it might be hard to keep that mask on their face. it could be a long-time struggle. well see. >> its law now in oklahoma. if their lethal injection protocol is struck down next week, this is what theyre going for instead, somehow. and maybe there are lethal injection protocols might not work now anyway because they cant get the drugs. in which case, oklahoma law now says this nitrogen thing is what theyll do instead. firing squads hanging, electric chair, gas chamber,...

One from oklahoma. oklahoma made itself famous in the past year for a badly screwed up execution in which the prisoner they were trying to kill regained consciousness in the middle of the execution. he personally ended up trying to help the execution team get into his veins. it went on for so long that oklahoma called off the execution in the middle of it and considered trying to revive the guy. they pulled the curtain so the witnesses wouldnt see it. ultimately after 3/4 of an hour the man fina...

Stuck, they scrub out your carbon dioxide, youll start breathing a continuous loop of nitrogen. and it doesnt take long, you just pass out and die. you dont even know its com on. nitrogen is inexpensive, its all around you. you dont need a doctor. >> you dont need a dr. doctor. that is professor michael copeland. he is a criminal justice professor at east central university in ada, oklahoma. hed had a lot of other jobs. long career in law and criminal justice including one stint at assistant att...

Painless and easy this process would be to use for execution in part by showing oklahoma legislators the youtube videos that he found of people breathing in too much helium when they were trying to be funny. >> i think the legislature actually want to see that. so this is a teenager that is breathing helium to make their voice sound funny. but theyre not really thinking of it, when theyre breathing helium, theyre not breathing oxygen. so shes trying to get as big a breath as she can. she becomes...