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Drugs was not the issue but rather they were injected incorrectly which raises a whole series of questions about who is executing these people and what kind of training do they have. from your work, what do we know about the efficacy of these systems? >> i think -- first let me start when it comes to the drugs. we still need to question the drugs because states are keeping a secret, basic information about the drugs as well as the source. the secrecy is not just limited to the drugs, it's limited to what might be called the execution team on the death squad. these are people where we don't kno...

Stone of the anti-death penalty arguments. first of all, who commissioned the autopsy and what did it show? >> yes, so the autopsy was commissioned by attorneys for oklahoma death row inmates. it was by respected pathologist. the preliminary findings with i want to stress they are preliminary. the execution team improperly faced a needle in the vein. causing the drugs to go in the tissue and leak out instead of into the vein. it found there was no problem with the inmate's vein quality of his veins. it really cast doubt on the statements by the prison director regarding the causes for the exec...

We will read the death warrant and offer an opportunity to have any last words. most guys don't say a whole lot. after that, walk back into the control room and prepare to carry out the duties. we communicate with the commissioner's room to ensure there are no last-minute stays and then we move forward. we start the process of administering the drugs. it takes approximately 20 to 25 minutes from administering the drugs, bringing the doctors into the room, having them perform an examination and them actually declaring death. we exit, the execution team takes back over. the body is delivered ove...

Condemned. we will read the death warrant and offer an opportunity to have any last words. most guys don't say a whole lot. after that, walk back into the control room and prepare to carry out the duties. we communicate with the commissioner's room to ensure there are no last-minute stays and then we move forward. we start the process of administering the drugs. it takes approximately 20 to 25 minutes from administering the drugs, bringing the doctors into the room, having them perform an examination and them actually declaring death. we exit, the execution team takes back over. the body is de...

Didn't feel like i had any way out. the next time we got into a fight, as soon as i got him off of me, i started shooting. i didn't stop shooting until the gun was empty. during the fight with me and my father, my stepmother and two stepsisters were in the house. when the fight started, they ran upstairs. my friend went after them. he kicked in a bathroom door. he shot the woman, cut the little girl's throat. and he found the other little girl and cut her throat. and when he come back downstairs, he told me what had happened. we decided to make up a cover story. we made it try to look like a r...