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So in 2000, they passed a requirement that the state of oklahoma had to autopsy, of course, anybody, any prisoner that died in state custody except for those the state actually killed. it was a senator, glen coffey who did not return my phone calls. they do a basic medical examiners report in every case. some cases the law says, which is determined to be in the public interest, they actually do a full autopsy. we found that since that law was passed in 2000, they've only done a full autopsy on 10 out of 50 inmates executed by the state. >> that number, ten, does not include some of the -- acco...

Incident at two abortion clinics in massachusetts in 1994. lawmakers in massachusetts eventually established a 35-foot buffer zone, basically a protest-free zone around abortion clinics in part to deal with concerns like those. today the u.s. supreme court struck down the massachusetts law. joining us now, marty wawalsh, m rer member of the massachusetts state legislature. she's now head of the planned parenthood league of massachusetts. thanks very much for being with us. >> great to be with you, rachel. >> first, let me ask you your reaction to today's ruling. a lot of people predicted the l...

Patients came in and got their health care. we're going be open tomorrow, be open saturday, and patients are going to get their health care. we also have tremendous support from our local police departments. so i was in touch with them today, and we know we will have increased law enforcement presence at our health centers, but that's not really a long-term solution. you don't want to solve this problem by having police there constantly when women are coming in for health care. what we're doing is reviewing the laws that are already on the books that we might be able to use, as well as what ne...

35 feet from the clinic entrance that is basically a no-protest zone, a bubble like you've got around polling places, like you've got around military funerals. like the justices of the supreme court enjoy every day. that fixed zone was designed to keep those clinic entrances open and people going in and out of the clinics safe, after decades of murder and mayhem outside clinics just like that. today the supreme court overturned that massachusetts law. from inside their own protective buffer zone, the supreme court issued its majority ruling striking down the one outside abortion clinics. rulin...

Closer to you than eight feet. in massachusetts where they had those murders in brookline, two people killed and the five people wounded in that enslaugt that day, in massachusetts they tried their own massachusetts version of that colorado law, but the protests were so vociferous, local police said it was not a workable law for them. in testimony before the massachusetts legislature, seven years into massachusetts trying to enforce their version of the sort of bubble law, the man who's now boston's commissioner of police told the legislature the floating bubble law was basically impossible fo...