e ve eventually, the death row inmates are asking oklahoma to stop executing people until it can be proven the state can do so constitutionally. the state says it has a new protocol. it has training in place. it has made improvements on the process. and they can execute people constitutionally. so it will be up to the federal judge to determine if they re going to be allowed to go forward. ziva branstetter, following the case extensively, thank really e thank you for helping us understand this case. thank you, rachel. we ve got much more to come. stay with us. sensitive bladder?
than oklahoma. training was required. execution teams were required to train routinely in oklahoma. in oklahoma, they have a strap down team do a walk through two weeks before the execution and that s it. other states train to place ivs into live volunteers. we don t do that. backup drugs. the dark room with the dark situation and colored pencils is something that s pretty obvious that needs to be fixed. i think the prison system will address some of those obvious issues. whether there s deeper change in what drugs we use and how they handle the inmates bodies afterwards in terms of testing remains to be seen. if there are changes, part of it will be because of the reporting that you and your reporters have done at the tulsa world. ziva branstetter. it s an incredibly dark subject. you ve shone a lot of light on it. thank you, rachel. thanks. we ll be right back.
protocol which we pointed out in my report. my partner and i reviewed protocols from 20 active death penalty states including oklahoma and most of the states were frankly doing it better than oklahoma. training was required. execution teams were required to train retunely in oklahoma. in oklahoma, they have a strap down team do a walk through two weeks before the execution and that s it. other states train to place ivs into live volunteers. we don t do that. backup drugs. the dark room with the dark situation and colored pencils is something that s pretty obvious that needs to be fixed. i think the prison system will address some of those obvious issues. whether there s deeper change in what drugs we use and how they handle the inmates bodies afterwards in terms of testing remains to be seen. if there are changes, part of it will be because of the reporting that you and your reporters have done at the tulsa world. ziva branstetter. it s an incredibly dark subject. you ve shone a l
issues. whether there s deeper change in what drugs we use and how they handle the inmates bodies afterwards in terms of testing remains to be seen. if there are changes, part of it will be because of the reporting that you and your reporters have done at the tulsa world. ziva branstetter. it s an incredibly dark subject. you ve shone a lot of light on it. thank you, rachel. thanks. we ll be right back. book any flight or hotel and if you find it for less, we ll match it and give you 50 dollars off your next trip expedia, find yours
which time the state was involved in several lawsuits over their lethal injection protocols, state of oklahoma stopped autopsying the prisoners who they were killing. not one in the whole decade. for more than ten years, during which time the state altered its lethal injection protocol three times, the state of oklahoma has done nothing in terms of physical examination to actually see how it is working or what it is doing in the process of killing people. it s all too secret. joining us now, ziva branstetter for oklahoma s tulsa world newspaper. thank you for being with us. thanks, rachel. let me ask you an the autopsy issue. oklahoma used to do autopsy of prisoners it killed as a matter of course and then they just stopped. why did they stop? and what medical information were you able to access to do this story given that the autopsies stopped for so long? well, we don t know really why they stopped.