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From the justice department. a new directive from attorney general bill barr to reinstate executions of federal death penalties. prisoners for the first time in nearly two decades, pete williams joins me, pete, why now? >> reporter: well, attorney general barr says it's time to restore the death penalty for the state of victims and their families, under both attorneys general have approved seeking the death penalty, no execution have been carried out in the federal system since 2003 for a couple of reasons. one is court fights over the lethal injection protocol, whether it's constitutional. wh...

Never allowed, prisons, mental hospitals, we wouldn't allow experimentati experimentation. states are looking to what they can find available on the shelf. or having it made ad hoc for a particular execution. not knowing if that will work well. or be a disaster like happened in oklahoma, a few weeks ago. >> since what happened in oklahoma a few weeks ago there have been, at least, three stays of execution just senate we have reported on this show. we don't typically, report stays of execution on this show. as a national story, national news story, national significance. what seems important ab...

Some late breaking and unexpected news tonight, just about an hour and a half ago, the governor of tennessee signed a new law in that state that would allow tennessee to use the electric chair to kill people again if the state cannot obtain drugs to use for lethal injections instead. tennessee is not due to execute someone for a few months, but apparently the governor is planning ahead, as the lethal injection system in this country has started to collapse. also in wyoming today, legislators there started drafting legislation to bring back the firing squad in wyoming for the exact same reason ...

Some late breaking and unexpected news tonight, just about an hour and a half ago, the governor of tennessee signed a new law in that state that would allow tennessee to use the electric chair to kill people again if the state cannot obtain drugs to use for lethal injections instead. tennessee is not due to execute someone for a few months, but apparently the governor is planning ahead, as the lethal injection system in this country has started to collapse. also in wyoming today, legislators there started drafting legislation to bring back the firing squad in wyoming for the exact same reason ...

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