Page 2 - Lethal Injection Protocol News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The legality of capital punishment. pamela brown is in washington. tell me who brought the case and what they were trying to accomplish here. >> reporter: brooke this case was brought by three death row inmates challenging oklahoma's lethal injection protocol specifically the controversial drug that is supposed to render a person unconscious, so that person is not having pain. this was used in the botched execution where the inmate died after 40 minutes. the suit claims the drug doesn't work effectively and it violates the cruel and unusual punishment clause. the supreme court ruled that the p...

Is it different, is it painful in that instance. because people who are being led to the death chamber, they're not going to breathe nicely through mask. they're going to struggle, do they need to be sedated? i have a lot of questions about that. because nothing that we have has to do with someone struggling for their life. we talked about that in our committee. is the delivery system a mask, a suit, a chamber is it a tent? what is it? if someone is thrashing around, it would be hard to keep the mask on. so it would prolong the struggle. >> we'll see. it's law now in oklahoma. if their lethal ...

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, lethal injection, now this is the new one. if they can sort out how to keep the prisoner from ...

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...

The room. they cannot see who they are drugging at all. if they need problems or have to communicate with the warden or staff in the next room along with the prisoner they are killing through the wall, to communicate with them, "the executioners stick colored pencils through holes in the wall where two iv lines feed into the inmate's body. if you saw red, there might be possible problems" said a deputy warden. but if you stuck the yellow pencil or the black pencil through the wall, then everything's okay. that's the system. and then there's the issue of autopsies. between 2001 and 2010, during...