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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 was standing in front of my cell, you know, handcuffed, police around him. what do you say? what do you say to so...

After oklahoma had a terribly botched execution eight weeks ago, the paper devoted significant reporting resources to figuring out whether or not that was just an unforeseeable fluke or whether there is something wrong. whether there's something fishy or fly-by-night or subpar in some way about the way that oklahoma handles this particular state function. the investigation found that oklahoma does not require any regular training for its execution teams. unlike other states. the state does not require there to be in any backup drugs on hand in case they start the execution but something goes w...

"the tulsa world" published a three-part series exposing unbelievable details about oklahoma's death penalty and the way it's administered. today's print edition part two titled "lethal lessons" describes how it works in the death chamber beginning with this unnerving scene. "in a cramp dimly lit room next the to oklahoma state penitentiary's death chamber three volunteer executioners push syringes of lethal drugs into the veins they cannot see." one of the more stunning revelations from today's report is they have virtually no way of communicating from that chamber that they're in to where th...

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 ...

It was nothing like that. it's all messed up. man, it's messed up. it sucks. >> stateville has long been home to some of illinois's most violent offenders. the vast majority of prisoners are in for murder or violent assault. >> it's hard, man. i mean, prison ain't nothing nice, you know, but it ain't like it's they fault, you know. you live a life of crime, this is where you're going to end up. >> stateville has housed its share of infamous criminals. john wayne gacy, convicted of murdering 33 young men and boys in the late 1970s, and richard speck, convicted for the murder of eight student nu...