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Injection cases in the last few years. this past friday, oklahomas governor mary fallon signed a bill into law that sets oklahoma up with a backup plan, a backup means of execution in case their use of lethal injection is blocked by the supreme court in next weeks case. oklahoma is a deep red state. oklahoma is a very very pro-death penalty state. but oklahoma has now invented and put into state law very quickly a new form of execution that has never been done before. not only here in the united...

Nobody news there was as much opposition to the death penalty, even among conservative republicans. 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...

Injection statute struck down by the supreme court in this case next week, this really is what theyre turning to. this nitrogen idea, which this screenwriter invented. and wrote about in a conservative magazine 20 years ago. oklahoma state lawmakers say they have had inquiries from lawmakers in 19 states who say that they might want to do it too now that oklahomas doing it. so this kind of feels like an edge of the diving board motel, right? in this case next week, lethal injection might go away...

Quickly. lets get loretta lynch confirmed quickly and move on to other matters. >> at least five republicans are expected to vote in favor of loretta lynch. the same federal jury that convicted dzhokhar tsarnaev for the bombing of the 2013 boston marathon must now decide his fate, life in prison or death by lethal injection. the trial penalty phase opened tuesday with survivors discussing blood curdling screams in the chaos. quick warning to our viewers now, these images are graphic but centra...

Potentially could legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. or dot 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 penalty nationwide. but the specific case they have taken up on the death penalty is 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 pe...

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 ...

Committee, is the delivery system a mask, is it a suit, a chamber, a tent, what is it? 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 nitro...

Drugs. this new legal challenge says the state either intends to mix the stuff up itself for the next prisoner were there does not appear to be a compounding pharmacy, or maybe they plan to send that raw ingredient, maybe theyre going to send that raw ingredient to god knows what pharmacy if the state can find one thats still willing to do that work. so prisoners challenging mississippi plan has been able to figure out that mississippi has raw drug making ingredients stashed at the prison but no...

Drugs. this new legal challenge says the state either intends to mix the stuff up itself for the next prison right there at the prison where there does not appear to be a compounding pharmacy or maybe they plan to send that raw ingredient which they have obtained maybe theyre going to send that raw ingredient to god knows what pharmacy if the state can find one thats still willing to do that work. so prisoners challenging mississippi plan has been able to figure out that mississippi has raw drug...

This is amazing. this is an inventory of the drugs on hand at the mississippi execution chamber. you can see right there. its one of the drugs they use to kill prisoners for lethal injection, but not as a powder. it has to be liquid, right? mississippi for some reason has it on hand in powder form. but if you wanted to inject it into somebody to kill them, you have to get it mixed into injectable form by a pharmacy. with pharmacies getting out of that kind of business, whats going to cook them u...