it's all too secret. joining us now, zeva branstetter for oklahoma's "tulsa world" newspaper. thank you for being with us. >> thanks, rachel. >> let me ask you an the autopsy issue. oklahoma used to do autopsy of prisoners it killed as a matter of course and then they just stopped. why did they stop? and what medical information were you able to access to do this story given that the autopsies stopped for so long? >> well, we don't know really why they stopped. so in 2000, they passed a requirement that the state of oklahoma had to autopsy, of course, anybody, any prisoner that died in state custody except for those the state actually killed. it was a senator, glen coffey who did not return my phone calls. they do a basic medical examiners report in every case. some cases the law says, which is determined to be in the public interest, they actually do a full autopsy. we found that since that law was passed in 2000, they've only done a full autopsy on 10 out of 50 inmates executed by the state.
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