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Way to create these districts. we saw it in arizona, in california, a lot of the western states who have had an independent political addition. this is the supreme court who people felt has stopped other attempts to regular laltte the political process for reasons the court says violates free speech. today they're finding the five votes to step up and say, no this is wait wethe way we do reform that is okay with the constitution. as pete said it's part of the legal reasoning that has to do with the notion of where political power emanates from and where, by granting power to the political syst...

Should be a broader challenge to the death penalty itself. and the legal question, is it cruel and unusual punishment which is banned by the eighth amendment in the constitution. as you say, witnessing some of these so-called botched executions has shown people a lot of the problems in this area. i don't know if you want to go back to pete. >> pete keep us up to date what you're hearing now on the rulings. >> reporter: no, that was the point i was going to make. >> okay. stand by as we again await and hear more. ari talks to us a little bit on the other two here. we're waiting to hear -- >> th...

Sufficiently knock somebody out, that while it may have put them to sleep, a sharp pain could cause them to wake back up again. they cited a couple of cases where the lethal injections were quite gruesome where the condemned prisoners were writhing and crying out in agony on the lethal injection table. but the challenge for them was to try to come up with a better way. it's interesting that justice aleto wrote this decision because during the oral argument, he said to the death penalty opponents or lethal injection opponents, you're the reason this case is here because of your continuing attac...

And now the final decision from the supreme court, the last one of this term this one on toxic pollutants from power plants. let's turn to pete williams at the supreme court. pete? >> reporter: this is a victory for the power plant industry. the supreme court said the epa is wrong when the epa said it did not have to consider a cost versus benefit analysis when it decided what pollutants to regulate. the industry said that calculation had to be done first. look at the sort of dollar value of the public health benefits versus what it would cost the industry. the epa said it didn't have to do th...