pierce died accidentally from positional asphyxia. after pierce passed i looked up the product and it said like not for infant sleep, which we didn t know. reporter: two years ago after reports of eight infant deaths the consumer products safety commission recalled more than 3 million boppy newborn loungers. but an nbc news analysis found at least 26 baby deaths linked to various brands of infant loungers between 2015 and 2023. more than twice as many deaths cited by the cpsc in its recent warnings. had we known we would have never put him in it. reporter: nbc news asked dockatot about pierce movitz s death and others. the company says it is committed to safety, adding none of the reports have shown its products were the cause of those tragedies. alex hoehn-saric is the cpsc chair. there was some criticism when cpsc initially reported the potential dangers that you knew of more deaths than you made the public aware of. how do you respond to that?
him down. less than an hour later, he was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. after the coroner determined moore died from positional asphyxia, prosecutors decided to charge the pair with murder. they treated my son like he was an animal. he was human. reporter: today, the family s legal team, including civil rights attorney ben crump, filed a wrongful death suit against the paramedics and the private ambulance company lifestar. moore s mother and sister sat down with cbs news for their first interview. that s the part. that s the part i keep seeing. i keep seeing him. slam him like that. that s what i keep seeing. the whole body shakes. reporter: their attorneys both say their clients shouldn t be charged with a crime, let alone murder. a lot of tragic things happen. they are not necessarily criminal. reporter: we reached out to lifestar, the private ambulance
[laughs] but i do it all the time, sorry. That does it for us tonight. Well see again on monday, provided i still have a job. Now is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. And who needs commercials . Come on. The audience is very grateful for that move. Rachel, i listened to your interview with Attorney General Keith Ellison, who managed the prosecution of Derek Chauvin. So fascinating to hear his perspective on it. He of course among many other things, really great moves, hired the dream team of special prosecutors. He brought two attorneys out of private practice to prosecute this case. The lead prosecutors. Theyre going to join us in this hour. But they wouldnt have been there. They would have been in that courtroom without Keith Ellison calling the police and putting them in that courtroom. Yeah, and to have had not only the conviction, but to have had this landmark sentence today i mean that number is going to mean Something Di