logistically speaking. in one state, this is a description of the various parts of the execution team, how they communicate with each other during an execution as the 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 hole in the wall, that is part of the ad hoc protocol for how they kill people in oklahoma where they notoriously botched the execution of convicted murderer clayton lockett this past april. now the excellent newspaper,