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They say that anesthesiologists should not participate in execution by lethal injection. theyre particularly important since anesthesia is one of the drugs they try to kill people with. theyve gone a step further. they have a policy that would essentially revoke the board certification of any anesthesiologists who are found to be involved in executions. so from that professional associations perspective, you want to kill people, we cant necessarily stop you, but then we can say that you can no l...

We dont want to enflame that situation. its complex. its a tragedy that is degraded to this point. we have to deal with the situation as we find it. so here is what we should do. make sure we help the kurds and stablize that region. we need to make sure that southern iraq remains stable. from my point standpoint we reach out to the moderate sunnis who have cast their doubt with al qaeda and before they rejected that. they joined the coalition government and we didnt leave people behind to try to...

Once that suspect dft i suppose we can now say, whether thats official, whether thats just common parlance, i dont know yet, but there will be, clearly, a lot of issues at stake in trying to prosecute khattalah. i want to get to other news weve been covering. its been seven weeks since an inmate died of a heart attack followed a botch lethal injection. there have been no executions since then but that could be about to change. georgia, missouri and florida have executions on the books planned fo...

>> the last thing pearl said she heard diane say was bless this child. >> according to cell phone records, neal stood over dianes body and called pearls mother telling her he had recently come into some money and suggested they all go shopping. later, neal ditched dianes car and set it on fire thinking they had destroyed all the forensic evidence. but they still left plenty behind. >> neal was not executed by the state, then it would really be a travesty. >> we the jury find the defendant guilty...

Logistics of how states can do that. states started killing prisoners by injecting them with deliberately misused pharmaceuticals in the early 1980s. oklahoma was the first state to make that their official way of killing people. texas was the first state to actually do it. it was 2008 when the supreme court ruled that lethal injection was a constitutional way for states to kill prisoners. that ruling went into great detail about how lethal injection wasnt cruel and unusual because the sodium th...

Wouldnt rub on the strap and dislodge. but at the same time, im holding his hand. you kind of get in a conflict with yourself, youre holding him down, but holding his hand to give comfort, again, i couldnt be there to hold the victims hand or i would have, so do what you can here. >> warden cain has overseen six executions during his tenure. death by lethal injection might have been temporarily stalled, but death by incarceration never falters. the population is aging, with hundreds of men 60 ye...

Visit. well, his mother didnt commit the murder, you know. >> contact visits or not, their time at angola ends at the death house. the method -- lethal injection. >> at this point, we get them strapped down and get the shoulders strapped down and then im going to close the curtain and out comes the emts and theyre going to start the ivs. we have some 60 minutes to do it. there are the two phones. they go to the department of corrections and the governors mansion, but they never ring. i give a si...

Over to the table and hold that so the iv wouldnt run on the strap and dislodge. at the same time, im holding his happened. you kind of get in conflict with yourself. you hold him down and hold his hand for comfort. i couldnt have been there to hold the victims hand, but i would have so you do what you can here. >> warden cain has overseen six executions during his tenure. death by lethal injection might have been temporarily stalled but death by incarceration never falters. the population is ag...

Tennessee taking a new stand in the nationwide debate on the controversial issue of executions. the governor there signing a new bill into law just last night allowing the state to use the electric chair for death row inmates. this comes after many states are struggling to get the cocktail needed for lethal injection. according to a vanderbilt university poll also released this week, 56% of registered voters in tennessee support use of the electric chair while 37% are against it. time to bring i...

Right direction or completely wrong direction to bring the chair in as the only option? >> i think theyre moving in the right direction. irrespective of how you feel about the death sentence, i think the electric chair has been used for many decades, its very effective. i dont think that it incurs any more suffering -- youre really not -- its doing its job. we have -- >> but theres no choice here. in many states they give prisoners a choice of how they want to die. >> but for me, i understand it...