remember, i come from texas where they had a lot of electrocutions, other death penalties. probably lead the nation, i don t know if they still do, but probably do. but in sorry. i ll be interesting to see how many, if any of these death penalty situations actually result in it being done. ask if it does get blocked or if some of them do go through the legal bas on which that will happen, they re fighting about the technocratic parts of it, whether this drug will be used, whether the drug company gets a say in whether or not it s used, whether the protocols for a contingency plan is in place. it s a fascinating story. but the main thing i wanted to talk to you about tonight, dan, is what we re seeing from the new administration in terms of them abandoning previously held
joined secretary clinton for the first time out on the campaign trail in north carolina, the first lady s message really aimed at getting folks out to vote and engaged in the early voting process now under way in so many states across the country, craig. kristen welker for us in westchester. thank you so much. horrifying developments in the battle for mosul. new reports this morning that isis has executed hundreds of folks there also using thousands of people as human shields. we want to get to matt bradley in erbil, iraq. matt, what are you hearing? reporter: it s truly ma cab. they ve done this. beheadings, electrocutions and drownings, bizarre and very sort of creative disastrous ways of killing people but a side show
botched and the rate for lethal injection may be even higher. during lethal injection, an anesthetic is supposed to put the inmate to sleep. a second drug causes paralysis and the final drug stops the prisoner s heart. it always doesn t go by the book and sometimes the drugs are administered incorrectly by the technician. a 2005 study found that 21 of 49 executed prisoners had anesthesia levels consistent with consciousness. meaning they may have been aware of what was happening but unable to express pain. then there s the electric chair. 500 to 2,000 volts were sent through the inmates body. if after 30 seconds he or she is still alive, the process is repeated. a supreme court justice once described electrocutions as extremely violent. witnesses have seen vomiting blood, burning skin and occasionally the body catches on fire. when the gas chamber was introduced in the 1920s, it was spend to be a more humane alternative. inmates are instructed to inhale deeply when they get in but they
of execution. ute s governor signed the bill in march to bring back the firing squad. and you have other states seen here in yellow like alaska wyoming, and idaho here considered bringing it back. in tennessee, tennessee reinstated the electric chair last year. though as it stands right now, lethal injection remains the primary method in all states. there had been more than 1,200 of them since 1976. that s followed by 158 electrocutions, and also 11 gas chambers. three hangings and three firing squads. interesting to see that broken down by how it s done and which states. now, we ll find lots of opinion on how americans feel about the death penalty. earlier we asked some people, we re also asking your viewers to weigh in. that brings us to the bing pulse question today should the death penalty be abolished across the country. look how this has changed in the past hour. this has dropped almost ten
that s when the supreme court reinstated capital punishment. the state of texas tops the list at 521 followed by oklahoma at 112. virginia follows that with 110. and then florida with 90 executions. missouri at 81. let s look at how states executed their inmates. take a look at this animated map actually. we want to pull that up here. you see how those executions have been going through. in 1971977 you see they executed people in a wide variety of ways. you see the silhouettes? the blue shows electrocutions. the red shows firing squads. the green show gas chambers. the yellow show hanging. the black, that represents lethal injections. combination of which are subject to a major controversy these days. so when you see that animation and silhouettes popping up representing how these inmates have been executed. all right. so much so that these states have brought back older methods