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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 ...

Conviction, or execute me and get it over with. now, you dont know if its going to be five years down the road, if its going to be two years, ten years, what theyre going to decide. and thats really hard. >> if ralph menzies is to be executed, he will be moved from a holding cell at 30 minutes to midnight, then be escorted by a team of five officers down this hallway, arriving at a room whose purpose cannot be mistaken. some inmates die by lethal injection. utah still uses a firing squad for inm...

Around both ankles. this is a shroud that would actually cover the headpiece. you dont have an option whether to wear the blindfold or not. its mandatory. the flow is by cable from the base of the chair into the headpiece and both ankles. and it would complete the circuit. this is the gurney that we use for the lethal injection. there are two iv lines come to the portal in the wall. one line would go to the left arm with the right being the backup. this is the room to where the executioner would...

Its awful. but i want people to know he wasnt always like this. he was a completely different person growing up. he was the guy next door. >> reporter: again, that gunman is now dead. authorities very much investigating what prompted this shooting here that left four people dead and others injured. certainly four families and an entire community in fact, in some ways the entire country, grieving over this. >> thank you so much. dave wagner reporting on the ground from chattanooga. we appreciate ...

Insanity was not reached. what happens now? >> on monday the judge is giving a little break. on monday the 12 jurors, and i really feel for them, it is never easy to sentence someone to death. theyll their prosecutors say all the aggravating reasons he should be put to death by lethal injection. and the defense will talk about the reasons why he should not. his age, the experts and all that. there may an video played of the victims families, everyone who lost loved ones. and 70 people are alive....

Works. and i just want to compliment you for covering this story. it has gotten a little lost in the shuffle. this whole case. this happened before the sandy hook all those children got killed. this happened before the boston marathon bombing, the charleston church. this was first time a mass murderer came in where you and i go all the time with our families all the time. you go to watch the movies. he wiped everyone out. the only issue i have fundamentally with the language is how could anyone ...

Another is believed to have been caused by lightning. two of the church fires remain under suspicion at this point. switching now to the u.s. supreme court. it has made a number of key rulings lately. on monday it upheld the use of controversial drugs for lethal injection in executions. three death row inmates brought the challenge, arguing they violate the eighth amendment ban on cruel or unusual punishment. they also put on hold a ruling to close abortion clinics in texas. of the u.s. suprem...

Number of clinics in texas, take it down to about eight or nine. >> and burt i want to also turn. we have so much to talk about, to lethal injection. justice sotomayor in dissent today, saying under the courts rule it wouldnt matter whether the state intended to use this controversial drug or have petitioners drawn and quartered, slowly tortured to death or actually burned at the steak. >> i would take the burned at the stake case for a contingent fee. i would win that case. >> what do you mean ...

The problem isnt just left and right, washington incumbents that care about themselves. this gives them a chance to make these changes in more and more states. a big political decision one that i would say was unexpected here in the final term. >> 5-4 when it comes to that and also lethal injection, supreme court holding up the controversial use of the drug as we saw those botched oklahoma executions of 5-4 upholding. one last left mercury emissions in power plants. well hear from both of you wh...

Sufficiently knock somebody out, that while it may have put them to sleep, a sharp pain could cause them to wake back up again. they cited a couple of cases where the lethal injections were quite gruesome where the condemned prisoners were writhing and crying out in agony on the lethal injection table. but the challenge for them was to try to come up with a better way. its interesting that justice aleto wrote this decision because during the oral argument, he said to the death penalty opponents ...