some argue how clayton d. lockett decide was unimportant. he was convicted of shooting a 19-year-old girl, and she was buried alive. the object was to kill clayton d. lockett, that was achieved. >> we have a fundamental standard that when the death penalty is justified. it must be carried out humany? >> the argument in the united states was solely about the morality of the death penalty. now there's the argument whether state authorities have the proper means to carry out the league at right to kill without torturing prisoners to death. >> 17-year-old student and long island new york accomplished a rare feat. she was accepted into 81 of the eight u.s. ivy league universities. he is studying at yale to become a doctor. his talents were academic. he's a violinist and shot-put and athlete. >> at the end of the day, you're the one going to college, or doing what you do in life. and you have your passions. things that you love doing most happens to be learning, education, if you develop that self-driven force to push yourself as far as you can go

including that of clayton d. lockett, a convicted killer, dying of a heart attack 43 minutes after the lethal injcked drugs -- injection drugs failed to kill him. a new drug combination was tried, they had never used it before - because pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to supplies drugs for execution. >> some call it a botched execution. it wasn't a botched execution - it was cruel and inhumane treatment. the s.p.c.a. does a better job than in oklahoma and other states. >> in putting animals to death. >> that's right. michael okwu has a 3-drug -- oklahoma has a 3-drug protocol. ours calls for a loathal dose of pinto basha toll. we used it since 2012 and carried out many executions. >> reporter: campbell's lawyers used it to seek a halt to his execution. that did not work. an argument that he is mentally incompetent did. with two hours to go, campbell's life was spared. the grim work in the walls is scheduled to go on. next in line, manual, convicted of killing a low-level drug dealer on orders from a crime

lockett. >> lethal infections failed, clayton d. lockett cried out in pain and died of a heart attack. on n.b.c.'s "meet the press", perry refused to say it was inhumane. >> i'm confident the way the executions are tape care of in the state of texas are appropriate. >> and humane. >> and humane. >> was this inhumane? >> i don't know whether it was inhumane, but it was botched. >> the question is whether it violates the constitution, which says - perry was not asked but expressed concern about the eighth amendment or cruel or unusual punishments can be rare. mike christian in oklahoma defended the penalty saying: def deff deffed. >> cruel and unusual. >>> in the 2014 midterm elections women voters will be a key. mark udall in his fight decided to get the attention of women voters. his opponent cory gardner faced this udal attack add out of the gate. >> it comes down to respect for women and our live. congressman cory gardner's history opposing abortion laws is a concern. >> gardner calls the ad misleading and accuses udall of going n

state prison chief said three drugs used to put clayton d. lockett to death did not enter the system because the vein they were injected to collapsed. the mishap was not noticed for 21 minutes. medical officials tried to find a vein in arms, leg and neck before inserting an iv into the groin. the execution was halted. president obama was asked about the case and he said that states should reconsider the death penalty for all kind of reasons. >> we have seen significant problems - racial bias, uneven application of the death penalty. situations in which there were individuals on death row who later on were discovered to have been innocent because of exculpatory evidence, and all these, i think raise significant questions about how the death penalty is being applied. >> in today's power politics this has been a remarkable 24 hours nor the jed bush 2016 presidential campaign. a growing list of influential public donors have been pledging support for the former governor, and in the "new york times", they reported donors that planned to back chris

. >>> lawyers for clayton d. lockett want the feds to lead an inquiry into his botched execution. he died of an apparent heart attack 43 minutes after being given lethal drugs. the governor said justice was served and the people of oklahoma do not have blood on their hand. another inmate was supposed to be executed and his lawyers asked the judge to put a 6-month stay on an execution. >>> chaos interesting a city council meeting in albuquerque. protesters took over the meeting. they accused the city coup of doing -- council of doing nothing to kerb excessive force within the police department. some protesters pushed council members out of their chairs and sat in them. one tried to serve the police chief with a warrant for his arrest. the police chief and council members walked out of the meeting. >>> new jersey lawmakers questioned a former aide to governor chris christie, verying who was behind the -- investigating who was behind the george washington bridge saga. rena resigned after kelly resigned following the scandal. >>> in california a major connector, interstate 15, is clos

d. >>> in just a few hours a team of u.s. military personal will fly to nigeria, joining the group of americans already there locking for 2 -- looking for 276 school girls ab ducted by the group boko haram a month ago. it's a dangerous mission, an uncertain one and comes as boko haram is suspected of having killed scores of people in a remote village. nobody knows where the girls are tonight. but new details are emerging about the ordeal, and coming from a girl who managed to escape. she talked to ahmed edris. >> translation: after they attacked the town they took us to their camp, i and three others lied saying we need to use the toilets. that's how we ran away. they chased us, we kept running. >> many in the town where this happened worry that the missing girls have been trafficked out of nigeria. some parents say they feel abandoned by nigeria's government. >> i prefer if they would ask my suggestion. they should go into my house, burn my house, break everything in my house. that woul

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d. it is a night when the capital comes together in bipartisan good humor for the most part, but with sarcasm, the tensions pretty easy to spot. what did we learn from president obama about how he sees the 2016 race for his job among democrats? here are a couple key moments. >> let's face the facts. you will miss me when i'm gone. it will be harder to convince the american people that hillary was born in kenya. >> later, the president joked about a recent encounter hillary clinton had in las vegas. >> it's a long time between now and 2016, and anything can happen. you may have heard the other day hillary had to dodge a flying shoe at a press conference. >> that, of course, the vice president doing some joking around. so was obama tipping his hand about 2016? i have got my political round table here. joining us for the first time, will.i.am from the black eyed peas. obviously the founder president of i am angel foundation hoping to transform young people's lives through education and oppo