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christie. amidst this week s obamacare chaos obamacare is made of people! ahh! we ve got a supreme court shocker that everyone else missed. all in starts right now. good evening, from new york. i m chris hayes. tensions are enormously high in the west bank at this moment. as the israeli/palestinian conflict seems headed toward an even greater escalation. these scenes you are seeing are thousands of palestinians marching in what s being described by israeli radio as the largest such protest in a decade. they started in ramala in the west bank which falls under the control of the palestinian authority and marched toward jerusalem which is under israeli roll. until now, the palestine authority has largely suppressed street protests like what you re seeing. two protesters were already killed today. the crowds have marched on all the way to the checkpoint between the west bank and jerusalem. a checkpoint heavily manned by israeli defense forces and right now th ....
dreams still not realized. the growing controversy over the most widely used form of capital punishment in this country, lethal injection, whether it s administered in states across this country in a humane fashion. today it s arizona officials who are reviewing a botched execution. this time, trying to figure out why it took two hours to execute joseph wood. reporters witnessing the execution describe wood as gasping during two hours, the family of his victims say they only saw justice. everybody, here from what i heard, said it was excruciating. you don t know what excruciating is, what s ex-crushiating is seeing your dad lying in a pool of blood, seeing your sister in a pool of blood, that s excruciating. he was snoring, and then passed away. how that is suffering? how do you call that suffering? because it s a new drug? come on. you guys are blowing this way out of proportion. the botched execution in arizona follows a similar one in oklahoma in april when i ....
her name was florence schumaker thompson. she was asked if she would fill in and become the sheriff in her husband s absence. she said yes. she was sworn in in davis county the day after her husband s funeral. and as unusual as it was at the time, in the 1930s, to have a woman sheriff in the united states, the reason florence schumaker thompson became nationally famous as a local county sheriff in kentucky at the time is because while she was sheriff of that county, she had to carry out a hanging. just a few weeks after she was sworn in, an african-american man named rainy bathea was sentenced to die in davis county, kentucky, after he was convicted of raping and murdering a local white woman. he did not protest his innocence. although he did fight his sentence. he tried to avoid the death sentence, but the county did convict him and they were determined to hang him and sheriff florence schumaker thompson thereby became the first woman in the united states to be given t ....
gubernatorial candidate throws a bombshell accusation at chris christie. amidst this week s obamacare chaos obamacare is made of people! ahh! we ve got a supreme court shocker that everyone else missed. all in starts right now. good evening, from new york. i m chris hayes. tensions are enormously high in the west bank at this moment. as the israeli/palestinian conflict seems headed toward an even greater escalation. these scenes you are seeing are thousands of palestinians marching in what s being described by israeli radio as the largest such protest in a decade. they started in ramallah in the west bank which falls under the control of the palestinian authority and marched toward jerusalem which is under israeli roll. until now, the palestine authority has largely suppressed street protests like what you re seeing. two protesters were already killed today. the crowds have marched on all the way to the checkpoint between the west bank and jerusalem. a che ....
the day after her husband s funeral. and as unusual as it was at the time, in the 1930s, to have a woman sheriff in the united states, the reason florence shoemaker thompson became nationally famous as a local county sheriff in kentucky at the time is because while she was sheriff of that county, she had to carry out a hanging. just a few weeks after she was sworn in, an african-american man named rainey bethea was sentenced to die in davis county, kentucky, after he was convicted of raping and murdering a local white woman. he did not protest his innocence. although he did fight his sentence. he tried to avoid the death sentence, but the county did convict him and they were determined to hang him and sheriff florence shoemaker thompson thereby became the first woman in the united states to be given the task of carrying out an execution. hundreds of reporters and photographers from all over the country descended on owensboro to cover the hanging, a hanging conducted by ....