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Regarding environmental regulation, probably the least exciting of the three. another point i want to make on lethal injection as we wait here this is a blow to death penalty opponents who try to find other ways as you were just discussing, other ways that help people in their view see their problems with the death penalty. we have seen them attack certain drugs in a way theyre no longer made available. so one of the hopes, and the significance of this ruling today, one of the hopes is well, may...

Favor of the use of a controversial lethal drug implicated in recent botched executions. now, in a 5-4 vote the justices ruled the drug did not violate the 8th amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. the opinion states that arguments that the drug not used effectively as a sedative in executions is speculative. joining me now from washington expert tom goldstein. we had two dissenting justices questioning the overall constitutionality of the death penalty overall. tell us what the...

Other decisions, but i want to bring in ari here and talk about this specifically in oklahoma. i have to say, during the time that i worked and reported at oklahoma city i witnessed two executions by lethal injection, and it is disturbing because when you see these medications rendered, and i know youre listening, too, so if we have to break away let me know. when you hear them you could physically see these inmates choking up. i witnessed it twice, with these people turning blue literally, and ...

All right. breaking news to pass along to you right now. more key decisions out of the u.s. supreme court this morning. pamela brown is there. two rulesings have rulings have come forward. what are they? >> the first one that has come out today is a major ruling on a lethal injection, and today the high court in a majority opinion, 5-4, cut along ideological lines, ruled that the controversial drug used in lethal injection does not violate the constitution. challengers to this drug had said that...

Here to stay. >> the most shocking news out of supreme court was not the ruling on the affordable care act. the roberts court ruled that the texas department of housing was guilty of housing discrimination. >> this is by all accounts a historic day. huge cheers applause celebrations here. americans, regardless of sexual orientation entitled to those equal rights and using the 14th amendment to expand it. a historic precedent likely to last generations to come. >> not only a -- [inaudible]. >> th...

Amendment. also it talked about the compelling evidence that the other side brought forth saying that a certain dose of this drug guerin at this guarantees virtual certainty they will not feel pain. justice breyer raised the question of whether the high court shuz takeould take up the constitutionality of the death penalty. this is what he said in his dissent. he said for the reasons i have set forth in this opinion, i believe it highly likely that the death penalty violates the eighth amendment...

This court has recognized are incompatible with democratic principles. she goes on to say the people of arizona turned to the initiative to curb the practice of jerry man dering and ensuring members of congress would have a habitual recollection of their dependence on the people this is a big case that has major political implications here, and this this also comes on the heels of an opinion on lethal injection. the court upholding the use of a controversial drug in lethal injection. another rul...

It was an area that was built. can you see some water there on the map, it was built quite near a salt lake, hence the name salt lake city, salt lake city india is hope to a company called harris pharma, llp. you see it marked on the map. unavailable export available into the united states is a drug they can manufacture or obtain thats called sodium thiopental, it is an anesthetic and its also used for killing people killing prisoners by lethal injection. trouble is the -- the only company in th...

Up with plan bs and plan cs or plan ds to find either that drug somehow or find some other means of killing people. and thats where harris pharma in salt lake city, india comes in. specifically their ceo, guy named chris harris. he tried to step in to save the day. look at this. from chris harris to the nebraska department of corrections dated may 11, 2011, 6:02 a.m. subject: supply. "hi, steve. this is to state that my company is willing and capable to supplying the required pharmaceutical prod...

Injection for the very first time ever. nebraska had just switched from the electric chair to lethal injection. they wanted to use it to kill this guy but they didnt have enough sodium thiopental on hand to kill him, until chris harris reached out and said i can sell it to you and he did. he wanted to be the middle man and he arranged for nebraska to import the drug from india, salt lake city india. it ended up being a disaster because the d.e.a. found out what nebraska was up to and they came i...