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Windows and also wind shields of these cars in pennsylvania. then look at this video coming out of hartley, delaware. there was a twister coming through tearing apart homes, leaving nothing behind but piles of wood. that crazy springtime weather. and then the death penalty making a lot of news lately after the botched lethal injection in missouri. but now the electric chair is returning to the state of tennessee. late last night, tennessees governor signing a bill to allow the state to electro...

There something pend org a possibility that there could be something larger going before the supreme court? >> it is possible, because the supreme court ruled, and correct me, richard, lastly 2008? >> yes. 2008 in "bays versus reeves" ye yes. >> and the court said that there is no such thing as a painless execution, and what you want to do is to minimize it as if at all possible. number one, there is not any sign that this supreme court is going to declare the death penalty overall unconstitutio...

A u.s. supreme court justice issued the order overnight to suspend the execution of russell bucklu. there is a little more than an hour to spare before his scheduled lethal injection. several protests took place across the state urging officials to stop executing convicted felons. this would have been the first lethal injection since the botched execution of an oklahoma inmate last month. it was stayed because of a raur medical condition. a federal judge has struck down pennsylvanias ban on ga...

Drugs. so i think the judge is taking a precautionary step to make sure it doesnt happen again. >> the lawyers say he has a birth defect that would cause an excrucating process. i want to bring in another side. and if you think this opens the door to have your clients get out of lethal injection in the future? >> i think it can open the door and what a leo is doing the prudent thing. at the end of the day, it is a best and delay tactic. there is a lot of concern after the botched execution. and ...

Since the weekend, the storms today mainly bringing just damaging winds. but also torrential rainfall. as you see, numerous rounds much thunderstorms in these areas. plenty of soaking rainfall, flash flooding and river flooding a major concern from portions of pennsylvania and new jersey all the way south and westward to the gulf of mexico. john and diana, back to you. >> thank you, jim. to oklahoma now, executions are on hold over a botched lethal injection. two were scheduled to take place yes...

Good morning, im diana perez. im john muller. here are some of the top headlines for this morning. the clippers put the controversy over their owner behind them in a playoff victory over golden state last night. the win came hours after donald sterling was banned from the nba for life. we will take you live to l.a. for reaction coming up. executions in oklahoma are on hold after a supposedly lethal injection failed to kill a condemned man. he eventually died of a heart attack. it was the f...

Gacy was executed by lethal injection in 1994. the last execution to occur at stateville took place in 1998. since then, all illinois state executions occur in a different maximum security facility. with such a high concentration of violent criminals in the prison population, it was only natural that the violence would continue within the walls of stateville. over the years, a number of incidents occurred that still reverberate among the old-timers today. >> in the old days we had quite a bit of...

Gacy was executed by lethal injection in 1994. the last execution to occur at stateville took place in 1998. since then, all illinois state executions occur in a different maximum security facility. until its torn down, statevilles death chamber remains fully operational as an emergency backup system. with such a high concentration of violent criminals in the prison population, it was only natural that the violence would continue within the walls of stateville. over the years, a number of incide...

Failings of the criminal justice system and so are more likely to doubt its perfectness and its correctness and so when you are sentencing someone to the ultimate punishment and eliminating them from the human community, we need to be perfect. we have exonerated 144 individuals from death row. were not perfect. >> yes. >> and so im not surprised that people who have experienced the imperfe imperfection of american society are against this. recent gallup polls have shown fewer people are in suppo...

Gas station. its the way theyve been executing their inmates that is the source of a pretty quiet but very serious debate. in recent years, many companies that manufacture drugs for lethal injection decided they no longer want to be in the business of putting people to death. so states like missouri, ohio and oklahoma, left to their own devices, have started to execute their inmates with new and untested drugs. in some of these states, not only are potentially inadequate drugs being used, drugs ...