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Execution, he was also a high school friend of oklahoma republican state representative mike christian. mike christian, his high school friend, is a pro-death penalty legislator. when the clayton locket execution went off the rates last year in oklahoma, representative mike christian decided that he should get involved in oklahoma rethinking its whole approach to how it kills people. >> and then the execution was carried out. it became problematic. again, we got world attention. after that, i reached out to a good friend of mine that i've known for years that i grew up with. he is very intelli...

Focused right here in this building as the supreme court heads toward two more huge chases -- cases that have the potential to hugely change some controversial policy matters in the country. next week on tuesday, the court will hear the big national case on same-sex marriage, which potentially could legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. or do the opposite. then the day after that, the court will hear the lethal injection case. they're ruling in that case has the potential to change the death penalty nationwide. but the specific case they have taken up on the death penalty is one from oklahoma...

Nitrogen is unexpensive. you don't need a doctor. >> he's not a doctor or scientist. he's a criminal justice professor at east central university. he's had a lot of other jobs. long career in law and criminal justice. including one incident in assistant attorney general. most importantly, how it is he came to invent the nation's newest legal form of execution, he was a high school friend of oklahoma republican state representative mike christian. when the clayton lockett exclusion went off the rails last year in oklahoma representative mike christian decided he should get involved in oklahoma ...

Nitrogen hipoxia. >> it's a way basically to go back to killing prisoners with gas. but intell of killing them with cyanide gas like multiple states did until arizona did the last one in 1999, they now want to use nitrogen gas. our producer kate osbourne went to oklahoma to ask how this would work exactly. >> they would use the same place we're using now. it would not be a chamber, just a simple mask. this is not a gas chamber, it's not poison gas, it's an inert gas. you could actually use helium.

Attack. that screwed up case in oklahoma has lead to lethal injection being put on trial next week at the united states supreme court. even without that case, lethal injection has been on hard time because states can't get the drugs they want to use for the injections. the drug companies won't sell to prisons anymore. states were having compounding pharmacies make the drugs by hand. but now they won't do that either. last night we reported in mississippi, mississippi appears to have stockpiled not injectable drugs, but rather the raw ingredients to try to make them. they have stockpiled these ...