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It will work. >> have you ever been to an execution? >> never have, and i don't wish to. >> why is that? >> it's not my -- it's something i probably should but i have no desire to witness one. >> so thanks to the bill and the professor's research and the governor signing that bill, oh oklahoma has invented a new way of execution, nitrogen. he says he knows of 19 states that are now looking into following oklahoma again, with oklahoma's next new big idea. no doctors or scientists were involved in coming up with this plan in oklahoma. no doctors or scientists testified about it. but based on exa...

Representative christian's bill and professor copeland's research and governor mary stalins signing that bill last week, oklahoma has officially legally invented the nation's newest form of execution, nitrogen. representative copeland told us just like the rest of the country followed oklahoma when oklahoma started eatingal injections in the '60s, he knows of 19 others states looking to follow oklahoma again with oklahoma's big idea. no doctors or scientists were involved in coming up with plan and no doctors of scientists testified about it in front of the legislature. but based on the videos...

Rethinking the whole approach to how he kills people. >> the excuse was carried out, the skugdz became problematic. there were some issues with that. we got potential after that. off to a good friend of mine that i have known for years, that i grew up with. very intelligent college professor said can you help me find a solution to a problem that exists not only in oklahoma but across the country and that's where we come up with the concept. >> nitrogen hypoxia. what these two high school friends came up with that they're calling nitrogen hypoxia is a way, basically, to go back to killing priso...

Would i ever thought it would have mushroomed into what it did. he also says now he probably would have been smarter to make the protocol just one single drug rather than a combination of three drugs. at the time he did suggest a combination of three drugs. basically by happenstance, because this guy in oklahoma decided to go that way, that became america's national means of killing people coast to coast. dr. chapman said quote, the states blindly followed it. that was 1977 they were the last state to come up with a new way of killing people. now oklahoma is doing it again. they have just inve...

Would work exactly. >> so the process from here would be that the department of correction would have to figure out facilities. they would need to acquire nitrogen and create a chamber? what -- >> they would be able to use the same place we're using now, it wouldn't away chamber. it would be a simple mask. this is not a gas chamber. it's an inert gas. it's 70% of what we breathe. you could actually use helium. >> that idea that killing somebody with nitrogen is akin to people breathing in helium, that became key to the way they sold the oklahoma legislature on this idea of how to kill people. ...