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Say theyre okay with it. were going to have another one of these issues come up this summer when we get that supreme court ruling in june on the constitutionality of lethal injection. if that ruling, as expected, restarts a national debate on the death penalty, we will find, again, in all likelihood that all the republicans hold one position on that and all the democrats hold the other position. but even as the beltway press has moved on, right, even as the beltway press mostly ignores this or t...

To get married. all of them. all of the democrats, hillary clinton included, say the opposite. say theyre okay with it. were going to have another one of these issues come up this summer when we get that supreme court ruling in june on the constitutionality of lethal injection. if that ruling as expected restarts a national debate on the death penalty, we will find again, in all likelihood that all the republicans hold one position on that and all the democrats hold the other position. but even ...

Summer when we get that supreme court ruling in june on the constitutionality of lethal injection. if that ruling, as expected, restarts a national debate on the death penalty, we will find, again, in all likelihood that all the republicans hold one position on that and all the democrats hold the other position. but even as the beltway press has moved on, right, even as the beltway press mostly egg nors this or treats this as an old issue from a previous election, that surprises them every time ...

>> on june 2nd, 1997, timothy mcveigh is found guilty on all 11 counts of murder and conspiracy. he is sentenced to death. >> outside the courthouse in denver, tears, smiles, and all emotions in between. >> later that year, on december 24th, terry nichols is also convicted. he is currently serving life at the federal supermax prison in colorado. for cooperating, michael fortier receives a 12-year sentence. he is now part of the witness protection program. >> people are going to remember timothy ...

Leaves. based on that it would seem to be safe to assume chief justice roberts will be siding with the courts three most conservative justices scalia thomas and alito. >> the chief justice would say no constitutional right to marriage, but interesting whether you have a right to have your marriage recognized if one state is going to allow you to have it. chief justice is a very conservative justice, but hes coy in arguments, makes sure to explore the issues with both sides, very hard to predict....

Spawned a era of terrible pun head lines. next week though the court is finally getting to a pair of big, grand historically important case. these are big cases. both of them. but if there is a sleeper issue it is the one about the way we execute prison arererprisoners. death row inmates are challenging lethal injection. this as states across are having trouble securing the drugs used for lethal injections. this as more and more are refusing to sell their products if those products are used for ...

the most humane option possible. we ended up sending our producer, kate osborn down to oklahoma to talk with professor pappas and the other folks who came up with this new method of execution in part because we had a hard time figuring out where it came from. theres an intersection track on where the electric chair came from, and where the gas chamber the first one, came from, and lethal injection came from but where did this idea from nitrogen gas come from? it has never been done anywhere i...

Fallin, signed a new law just ahead of those supreme court arguments that sets oklahoma up with a backup plan. a backup means of injection -- means of execution, in case their use of lethal injection is used by the supreme court in next weeks case. oklahoma is a deep red state. oklahoma is a very, very, very pro-death penalty state. but oklahoma has now invented and put into state law very quickly a new form of execution thats never been done before. not only here in the united states, but anywh...

But that bill uncovered a whole current of opposition to the death penalty that nobody had tested before. same thing in nebraska. nebraska is a nominally nonpartisan legislature, but overwhelmingly dominated by republican and conservative legislators. nevertheless, conservative nebraska just passed a bill to repeal the death penalty in that state. and they passed it by a big margin. its not a done deal, it has a couple more votes it has to go through. theres talk of a filibuster, theres talk fro...

With a backup plan. a backup means of injection -- means of execution, in case their use of lethal injection is used by the supreme court in next weeks case. oklahoma is a deep red state. oklahoma is a very, very, very pro-death penalty state. but oklahoma has now invented and put into state law very quickly a new form of execution thats never been done before. not only here in the united states, but anywhere in the world. and they have done it at a time when the death penalty and the politics a...