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While they've been incarcerated. >> i have a hope that one day i can be out of prison, you know. even though that hope might be small. i know that what i done was wrong. i deserve to be where i'm at. i've accepted whatever might come. >> what the future holds for haight is not certain. his case is still on appeal. but one day he might take the same walk our "lockup" crew took when they shot at kentucky state. >> kentucky is one of the states that actually still has an electric chair. i asked we want to make sure we get a shot of the electric chair. so we go to the end of the corridor in three ...

Clayton lockett was led to the execution chamber while charles warner waited in the wings. zeva bransetter witnessed the execution. >> it was my fourth execution to witness. it was scheduled for 6:00. eventually, they roll up the shade at 6:20. lockett was asked if he had a last statement, and he just said no. >> at 6:23 p.m., lockett was injected with midazolam to render him unconscious. >> at 6:31, the doctor checked consciousness, and the warden announced that the inmate was still conscious. a few minutes later, the doctor checked consciousness again and said the inmate is unconscious. >> a...

>> we gave cameras to inmates on death row as well. 28-year-old ben richie was here for having shot and killed a police officer. >> this ain't no joke. they execute people here, and if you don't work on your case on death row they'll march your ass over there and strap you to that table and murder you. on death row our cells are a little bigger than population's, but i'd rather have one of them smaller cells. [ bleep ], i'd rather go home. >> richie recalled the last time he watched a fellow inmate leave death row for the execution chamber. >> his time came for them to kill him, right? and he ...

>> tim young represented mcguire in his final appeals. >> when we went to court with mr. mcguire we argued that midazolam was likely to leave him in severe pain, almost torture, as if he were drowning or, or unable to breathe and choking and gasping for air. >> but arguing the dangers of midazolam presented an unnerving catch-22. >> the burden of proof is so high to say it's going to go bad that it has to go bad. >> he said the accused was not entitled to a pain-free execution. >> they believe the execution will be humane. if i believe that it would not be, we would not be proceeding. >> denni...

Hand. they had different drugs. and nobody knows how the screw-up happened. but now because of that oklahoma has scotched its plans to kill all three of the prisoners who they had lined up next for the execution chamber, including richard glossip, whose namesake supreme court case this summer paved the way for continued legal lethal injections, even amidst the chaos that reigns in the states right now over the drugs used in that kind of killing. justice stephen breyer wrote a remarkable dissent in the glossip case in which he said he not only disagreed with the ruling but the whole question of...