supreme court terminated its death penalty law in its entirety. alexander field takes a look at methods of execution and what can go wrong in the process. the death penalty is one of the most controversial issues in the country. just as controversial, the methods of execution. there are five different legal methods of execution in the u.s. human rights ak at this vafts say each can cause unnecessary suffering and each method has been called cruel and unusual. one study found between 1900 and 2011 about 3% of executions were botched. during lethal injection, an an thes tick is supposed to put the inmate to sleep. it always doesn t go by the book and sometimes the drugs are administered incorrectly by the
traffic control. the aircraft reportedly belongs to trigana air service. the more we get in that in the hours to come, we will get to you here on cnn. in the u.s. this week, connecticut s supreme court terminated the state s death penalty law in its entirety. this effectively saves the lives of 11 men serving death roll sentences there. alexandra field takes a look at methods of execution and what can go wrong in the process. reporter: the death penalty is one of the most controversial issues in the country. just as controversial, the methods of execution. there are five different legal methods of execution in the u.s. human rights activists say each can cause unnecessary suffering and each method has been called cruel and unusual. one study found between 1900 and 2011 about 3% of executions were
battery. the bodies are pulverized. there is nothing left behind. reporter: cnn has not been able to independently confirm those methods of execution. he says they often execute his entire family or send them to prison camps, up to three generations of them. they deny doing that. there s pressure to charge kim jong un with human rights offenses. a scathing report detailed all the killings and abuses in the north korean gulags. the u.n. general assembly has passed a resolution recommending kim and his regime be referred for criminal charges that will take an act of un.n. security council to endorse that. and russia and china will probably block that. there is a push in the u.n. to actually charge him with crimes. brian todd reporting for us. coming up live anthrax sent to labs across the united states and to korea by the u.s. army