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When it goes well lethal injection can be painful. >> you still see the fighting to breathe. >> he said using a firing squad as a backup more humane. >> a lot of these people are here for the gun. >> unlike the current scramble for gray market drugs, at least guns are reliable. so is beheading, saudi arabias method of choice. and hanging, how iran executes its prisoners. they may be brutal but at least theyre honest. maybe there is no humane way to put someone to death. joining me is the man who...

Avoided. thats the concern right now with the lethal injection drugs. youre going to have a spectacle regardless if its firing squad, lethal injection, challenges based on the constitutionality of the cocktails. that gives the backup plan until we have an approved method to do that. >> i want to go back to something you said a moment ago to make sure i understand. the volunteer basis of this the police officers you say who investigated the original crime, or the people who are given the first op...

Technologies, i guess its not clear what you mean by reliable. there is no foolproof technology for executing someone. theyve been botched executions of all kinds. theres been botched efforts to use the firing squad. so there is an effort in the united states to find a technology of execution that is safe, reliable and humane. and weve gone from hanging to the electric chair, to the gas chamber, to lethal injection. and now were in a period where states are starting to try to find a method of ex...

For some people, it matters, for some people it doesnt. >> you mean for the people that are actually -- >> on the firing squad. >> pulling the trigger. >> yes. >> for their psychological health or conscience, they can tell themselves they were not the ones that meted out death to this person? >> right. if theres a tern, you have to realize, too, this is a volunteer basis. based on the jurisdiction that investigated the murder in the first place, and it goes out regionally. >> you talked several ...

Molesters or rapists, instead it would list white collar criminals scammers and con artists who prey on peoples cash. lawmakers approved this registry from the state of utah the same state that signed off on shooting inmates to death if they cant use lethal injection. well tell you why utah is going so hard against white collar criminals when not one politician went to prison after the 2008 economic crisis. and why those and. crime spree solved. all because of an imprint in a snow bank. plus...

>> but utah banned the firing squad in 2004. gardner was grandfathered in. now lawmakers are trying to bring it back. >> a controversial bill passed by lawmakers in utah is getting lots of attention this morning. the bill would allow death by firing squad if there werent enough drugs to carry out an execution by lethal injection. >> heres how the process worked in the past. the inmate was brought into a specifically designed execution chamber, a room 20 feet by 24 feet, strapped to a black chair...

Before the oklahoma issue happened. >> do you believe a firing squad is more humane to the inmate being executed than the drug cocktail? >> you know, i do. i mean, the premise of this, as the humane part of this, we dont have the drug cocktail, we have to do something, the humane thing to do is the firing squad because it is death within three to five seconds. >> why not just go to that, if you think thats superior? why not push the state to just go to a firing squad? >> we have a lethal injecti...

In the constitution. its not a big leap that if the supreme court supposedly if they ever said that the injection, the lethal injection is unconstitutional -- >> they planned ahead. i got it. >> i predict a really bad willinson scenario. >> then youre right there are going to be legal challenges -- >> five sharp shooters arent going to miss. >> i got to go. >> four. >> i hate the death penalty. but go ahead. >> leave it at that. good-bye. were hearing ugly new attacks tonight on a group of repub...

They know theyre not supposed to do it. but whats written in the code of conduct then according to the fourth district court of appeals and what i think the supreme court would rule is unconstitutional. >> are you telling me the u.s. constitution trumps the oklahoma code of conduct? >> i think i am. yeah, yeah. >> let me shift gears and ask you about utah. utahs going -- i guess theyre going to shoot people to death now or on death row? what are they doing, arthur? >> it works. the bottom line i...

Commitments. >> this is a key point. lets talk about the current sort of lethal injection preferred method. much of that protocol has been engineered around the comfort and sensibilities of the people watching it as opposed to the inmate him or herself, in the case of the famous three drug cocktail, one of those drugs was to immobilize the person on the gurney so that they were not writing wriggling around and upsetting the witnesses. the whole process is about the sensibilities as we watch this...