about what happened. shortly after the warden buttoned his jacket to signal the start of the execution, my dad began gasping and struggling to breathe. i watched his stomach heave. i watched him try to sit up against the straps on the gurney. i watched him repeatedly clinch his fist and it appeared he was fighting for his by suffocating. the agony and terror of watching my dad suffer lasted more than 19 minutes. >> the words from the son. we were just talking about this yesterday making the point and listening executions are not pretty. to hear somewhere between 19 and 25 minutes to die, this lawsuit they filed, the state of ohio violated the cruel and unusual punishment of the constitution. >> that's right. as i said yesterday, it's going