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Execution went off the rails, rethinking the whole approach to how he kills people. >> the excuse was carried out, the discussion 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, bas...

Committee, is the delivery system a mask, is it a suit, a chamber, a tent, what is it? if smnl is thrashing around, it might be hard to keep that mask on their face. it could be a long-time struggle. we'll see. >> it's law now in oklahoma. if their lethal injection protocol is struck down next week, this is what they're going for instead, somehow. and maybe there are lethal injection protocols might not work now anyway because they can't get the drugs. in which case, oklahoma law now says this nitrogen thing is what they'll do instead. firing squads, hanging, electric chair, gas chamber, letha...

Want to use nitrogen gas. kates osbourn, our producer, went to oklahoma to ask how this 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 becam...

Would i do it differently if i had to do it over again? i don't know. i had no concept at the time. i was very young. i was not educated in the ways of legislators at the time when i suggested it, i had no idea 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 peo...

Injections across the country. they called it chatman's protocol because dr. chatman was asked by time magazine if he wishes he hadn't come up with the protocol given it became the model for the country. he said, quote, well, i can't undo history. would i do it differently if i had to do it over again? i don't know. i had no concept at the time. i was very young. i was not educated in the ways of legislators at the time when i suggested it, i had no idea 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 jus...