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"the tulsa world" published a three-part series exposing unbelievable details about oklahoma's death penalty and the way it's administered. today's print edition part two titled "lethal lessons" describes how it works in the death chamber beginning with this unnerving scene. "in a cramp dimly lit room next the to oklahoma state penitentiary's death chamber three volunteer executioners push syringes of lethal drugs into the veins they cannot see." one of the more stunning revelations from today's report is they have virtually no way of communicating from that chamber that they're in to where th...

Prisoner is being killed. "we have colored pencils. we've got a regular yellow, we've got a black grease pencil, a red grease pencil. if you saw red, there might be possible problems. but if you see the black or yellow, things are fine." there's a wall between the room where people push down the syringes to administer the drugs, and the room where the prisoner into whom those drugs are being pushed is actually sitting or strapped down. two separate rooms. there's a hole in that wall between the two rooms and the system to make sure everything is going okay poking colored pencils through the ho...