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So we thought it was okay. >> obviously, they need someone who is better equipped at knowing if someone is rendered unconscious. >> after hitting an artery causing locketts blood to spray, the doctor who executed lockett said he hoped to, quote, get enough money out of this to go buy a new jacket. >> what happened in oklahoma is deeply troubling. >> clayton locketts case would bring worldwide attention to americas botched executions and questions about the future of lethal injection. >> human ri...

July 22nd, 1985. in court, the prosecutions star witness, juan moreno described how he shot pedro in the head and turned the rifle on him and riddled his body with bullets. >> mr. moreno was a good witness, very sympathetic. he was asked to raise his shirt and show the scars and the wounds that he had received. when the jury saw the scars, they made a pretty big impression. they asked, are you able to identify in court today the man who shot and killed your friend. and he was able to say, yes, i...

Into my body, because i honestly thought i was a dead man. >> finding out four hours before your client is going to be executed that hes not going to be executed is a tremendous sense of exhilaration. but its not over. kevin was not off death row. >> two years after kevin coopers brush with death, a judge imposed a moratorium on the use of lethal injection in california. no one has been executed in the state since 2006. meanwhile, kevin cooper continues to declare his innocence and though his ap...

Filmed the execution of an elephant. executioners quickly seized on this modern method of putting the condemned to death. >> one of the first electric appliances was the electric chair. but the electric chair has its own problems. jesse tafarrow was executed in florida. a lot of people do believe he was innocent. there were flames that erupted from the skullcap during the execution, so he basically burned to death. in 1997, pedro medina was executed. >> flame erupted all across the top of his he...

Wants to deal with. but they wont commit another crime. >> the governor during rubens clemency appeal was the colorful leader of the texas democrats, ann richards. >> poor george. he was born with a silver foot in his mouth. >> in texas, even liberal icon, ann richards, would not dispute the death penalty. on august 23rd, 1994, the day before he was to be executed, ruben cantu received the reply. clemency denied. >> a san antonio man continues to claim innocence just hours before he is set to di...

>> historically, executions were very ugly, hangings, electrocution, and so one of the goals of the state, now, is that it looks calm and peaceful. >> to a great degree, the lethal injection regime has much more to do with the witnesses than it has to do with the condemned. the witnesses werent seeing the condemn writhe or cough or choke or snort. >> the challenge with lethal injection was finding executioners with the medical skills to do the job. >> today in the united states, it violates ethi...

>> obviously, they need someone who is better equipped at knowing if someone is rendered unconscious. >> after hitting an artery causing locketts blood to spray, the doctor who executed lockett said he hoped to, quote, get enough money out of this to go buy a new jacket. >> what happened in oklahoma is deeply troubling. >> clayton locketts case would bring worldwide attention to americas botched executions and questions about the future of lethal injection. >> human rights outrage. >> after botc...

Conclusion was earth-shattering. >> a hearing was held to determine seth penalvers sentence. life in prison or death by lethal injection. seths attorneys wanted to argue that his tumultuous childhood should be taken into account. >> seth had a terrible childhood. his mom was a drug addict. and he was raised somewhat homeless. had to rely on himself. >> he was a middle school dropout. his dad is deceased. and his mom is a heroin addict. he had no siblings. >> i told my attorney, no, youre not goi...

You know, after all that fighting, after all that time, to come to that, come to that conclusion was earth-shattering. >> a hearing was held to determine seth penalvers sentence. life in prison or death by lethal injection. seths attorneys wanted to argue that his tumultuous childhood should be taken into account. >> seth had a terrible childhood. his mom was a drug addict. and he was raised somewhat homeless. had to rely on himself. >> he was a middle school dropout. his dad is deceased. and hi...

Die by so-called lethal injection. its an angry letter. hes outraged about what happened to him. but its got some very, very powerful charges in it. >> for sam millsap, the letter was just another convict claiming innocence. as the years went by, millsap began to have doubts. >> it never occurred to me when i was 35 years old that i was the smartest guy in the room, that the criminal justice system could get it wrong in these cases. if i could do it over again, i never would have made the decisi...