full lockdown on antonio brown. phil: yeah, richard sherman just went into battle with his hands but here comes the blitz. k.j. wright. ben roethlisberger at the last second looks for brown. richard sherman allll over him. jim: so third and 12 for pittsburgh. with 6:30 remaining. darius heyward-bey makes rare appearance. a pass to williams. shakes off the tackle! what a big breakawayay from jeremy lane to pick up the first. they were going to stop him three or four yards short. itas goink to be fourth down. instead they have a new set of downs. phil: they have the perfect defense on but he breaks the tackle by lane then splits two other defenders to pick up the first down.

the pickup of the year. jim: he picks up 14. and pittsburgh is operating with a new set of downs at the 34. time-out. he was batting the play clockck it was down to a second. a chance to remind you, next sunday, regional action, includinghe jets and the giants. buffalo. baltimore-miami, jacksonville-tennessee. some will see their game late. denver-san diego or kanans city at oakland. all getting started with the nfl today at noon eastern next sunday on cbs. phil: how about this?

three rushes, 24 passes. what the pittsburghsteelers- they w we, of course, encouraged by their pass protection in the first half and if you're trying to win the game, you keep the football in the hand of your quarterback ben roethlisberger. jim: the steelers moving in on 500 total yards of offense. but down five. pump fake and wide open and falling for the first is will johnson. phil: they're ting to get something different. they finallyoved antonio browow get him a little double move but the defense stayed back. another good job of finding t(e secondary receiveby ben roethlisberger. jim: fourthirst down of this drive. a drive that saw a 28-yard pass

challenge. the steelers undaunted complete another one. it's wheaton. with a couple of seahawks surrounding him. gained seven. he's over 200 receiving. nine catches. phil: he stuck it in there. earl thomas read the quarterback. i' actually seeing the seahawks play a couple of defenses that they never play because they're just trying to find a way to stop this passing offense. jim: speaking of passing, big ben, 450 yards on the nose. pump fake. wide open. and securing it is spaeth, to the 10. just his second catch of the year. phil: antonio brown down at the bottom. nobody's open.

second guy that ben roethlisberger is look at, just like spaeth the last time, wide open. jim: and they've got first and goal. right at the 10. after the six-yard pass to spaeth. roethlisbebeer backs off his own linemen and now just flings it out of bounds. phil: welel thplay -- i ess the pressure was in his way and roethlisberger couldn't see. watch wheaton come underneath. that's what they're trying to do. he comes under, they're crossing. oh, he's got him but the pressure, the push in the pocket distracted him, couldn't find him. jim:56, an all-time record by the seattle opposing quarterback.

back of f e end zone. and over the head of bryant. phil: again, two linebackers blitzing along with the pass rush. great coverage. jim: now you wonder what would you do here if they didn't do anything with the third down with 3:43 to go, two time-outs?? would you go field goal to knock it down to two? phil: a lot might depend on what they do with this play. if they pick up some yards, tomlin will probably go for it. jim: third and goal. roethlisberger gets away from the heat. takes off. takeon the challenge and is knocked down by k.j. wright at the 4. decision time. phil: he's already made that decision. he's going to kick the field

you know, the thing is, if he goes for it and doesn't make it, he needs a touchdown to win.. he would probably have to use his time-outs. that's the reason why he's kicking this field goal. then it only takes a field goal to win the game instead of a touchdown. jim: 22 yards for boswell and he gets it with exactly three minutes remaining. phil: so i like the call, jim. just explained the way, that's how you have to think of it. gist him a little more room for error when you only need a field goal instead of a touchdown. jim: remember, they had to use one time-out earlier on thth drive as they were about to be penalized for a delay of game. talking to joey porter on the sideline. well, the week continues tonight. new england at denver and then tomorrow, baltimore and

that game tonight on nbc and then green bay and the lions, we'll have it for you thursday night on cbs and nfl network. wilsls loosening up. he's had his first four-touchdown game of the season coming off his first three-touchdown game of the season last week. il: well, the steelers, their defense, they were going to keep him in the packet, make him show us he can beat us throwing the ball from the pocket. 20-29, 465, four touchdowns. i would love those numbers. russell wilson's throwing, though, jim. we were taaing about it a lot yesterday, just really controlling the ball, throwing it with such power and accuracy. underrated.

jim: well, seattle has protected him, 10 yards across and lockett is up at the 20. they're looking like they want to be sure there's not an onside attempt. i'd be surprised to see it. phil: i thought i might see something different there from the kicker. you only have one guy back. jim: i'd try to do something dierent. make a scramble for it. phil: that's right. the play wasn't ready to be called. jim: again, the n.f.c. playoff picture. if the seahawks win at 6-5. they would actually move ahead on tiebreakers at the moment ahead of atlanta and they would be into the top six. on the a.f.c. side. phil: the steelers,s, knowing the situation, you have to play aggressive. you can't sit back.

so that means the corners have to come through with tight coverage against the wide receivers. jim: do you expect pittsburgh to go to their time-outs right away, given the chance? phil: yes, i do. jim: rawls. flag. mike tomlin already saying he's going to refuse it. referee: illegal formation, ofofnse. number 7 7. uncovered. that penalty is declined. second down. phil: so the wide receiver to

the side t thave right tackle, gary gilliam, was not on the line of scrimmage. that really is a huge help to the steelers because that penalty stops the clock. don't have to use a time-outut jiji second and 7. rawls, he lost the football! but is able to fall on it. backckt the 20. phil: it just slips out of rawls' hands. a little high on the handoff but he knocks it out. jim: pittsburgh elects to let the time-outs stay in the pocket. phil: that's right. they're going to let this play go. if they stop them, most likely a pass, the two-minute warning, two time-outs. a lot of time to get in position for a field goal. jim: third and 9. here they come. pass across the middle.

it is caught for the firyt! it's baldwin. shaking frere and sprintiti down the sideline! for the touchdown! advertise third of the day. doug baldwin. -- his third of the day. doug baldwin. phil: russell wilson stood in there look -- like he's done itit all day. they have the blitz coming. bud dupree is coming free but russell wilson did not flinch. here comes dupree arounun oh, he stands right in there and throws it hard enough where the backside defender couldn't knock it down. jim: seattle's longest play of the season, 80 yards. and now the era point. one.

to make it a two-score different rble. -- differential. this one's good. terrible tackling today by the pittsburgh defensive backs. and it crushed them right here. phil: yeah, it did, jim. coming across, good separation. boy, look at the straight arms. or the stifif arms, i should say. but, you know, the thing is ruell wilson, got to be excicid about his play the last couple of weeks. bevel, the offensive fire. what a game they called. what a difference -- this is why

it gives the seahawks some hope. last week they did it by moving the quarterback, having an offense, throwing from the outside. today he's done it from the pocket, russell wilson. jim: and he has his first five-touchdown performance of his career. phil: you talk about this seahawk team, you can't just sit here and go oh, the defense, it's going to dictate the game. no. it their offense the last few weeks and ben roeoelisberger, i don't think he's goingng to come back in. jim: talking to the team doctor, dr. james btadley. 2:01 to go. the five touchdown passes by wilson ties the team record. matt halls back had done it twice, warren moon once, and your buddy craig did it three times.s. phil: saw him on the field before the game today. my man.

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how you doing? hey! how are y y? where e e we watching the game? you'll see. i think my boys have a shot this year. yeah, especially with this new offense we're running... i mean, our running back is a beast. once he hits the hole and breaks through the secondary, oh he's gonene and our linebackers and dbs dish out punishment, and never quit. you didn't expe`t this did you? no i didn't. the nissan altima. there's a fun side to every drive. nissan. innovation that excites. the people closest to you can be the hardest to shop for, but if you know where to look for inspiration, you can find the perfect giftt for everyone on n ur list and share wonder every day.

jim: tonight on cbs begins with "60 minutes" and the daredevil, who are taking o o one of the most forbidding mountains in the world. follow bid "madam seetary," only cbs. roethlisberger heading to the locker room. land rip jones. the last play for roethlisberger was his attempt on third and 10. he scrambled down to about the 4-yard line. phil: that's right. he was talking to the doctors on

he did have that one hit on the roughing the passer call against bennett where his head snapped back. maybe it's part of the concussion protocol. but that was from that late hit earlier in thatt d dive. hehe s sayed in on the rest of that drive. here's a second and 10. over to williams. someho he gets free and he's off and running. to the 48 of seattle. time-outs. phil: man, what a good call and deangelo williams. if you thinin like oh, he's been in the league too long. he's lost those legs. the man can still run. jim: he's caught seven passes for 88 yards f f the game. phil: 1:45, two time-outs. always knowing it takes two

situation where you have to, you kick the field goal first. jim: going for the long ball and the big strike andnd a jump ball. kam chancellor came down with it. it's in the hands, thoug at the end of bryant. they'd already ruled an interception for seattle. phil: definitely has possession of the football. jim: at what point is the play over? phil: play is over. taken to the ground. still has possession. jim: i'm not sure here if he does when he rolls over but is the play already dead?

referee: the play is under further review. phil: since he's being taken to the ground, just like a receiver -- jim: who's got it now? phph: you have to ge up with the football. but is the play over after he's hit the ground and rolled over? jim: that's my question. at what point was the play over? because bryant endsp with the fofoball. phil: goes to the ground, still has possession. now he rolls over. i still think he has it. as he comes up. i'm saying interception. we'll see if all the lessons that mike carey has taught me over the year -- you know, jim, we discuss catch and no catch all the time. they've defined the rule -- jim: it's a topic every week, let's be honest. phil: yeah, but there's always a little bit of judgment in there. i thought he had possession. m:ike carey is teed up back in new york.

what do you see on this one? mike: this is one that's really tall talked about, dual possession. there was not dual pososssion coming in but what -- when the receiver hits the ground and the defender -- defender comes in. the ball comes loose, it's out of bounds. when the ball is loose, that ball should be incomplele at that spot. phil: wow. that is -- jim: how about that? phil: i honestly have never heard that we work hard at this. jim: mike, the play is still alive here? mike: yes, he maintains control when he hits the ground. both playersave the ball and the ball comes loose. it's kind of sururval of the fittest. the ball comes loose. should be an incomplete pass. jim: is this an easy one for blandino and walt, you think? mike? referee: after reviewing the play, the ruling on the field of

first down. jim: mike what did they say -- see that you didn't see? mike: whatp they went with was they believed thehe wasn'tt enough clear evidence. but we didn't see clear control when he hit the ground. both players, their hands are on it and the receiver must maintain control when hee goes out of bouous. when the ball comes loose at this point it's being ripped away from the defender. that should be incomplete in my opinion. jim: all right, mike carive. no here is the problem, as thehe run it with rawls. here's the problem with replay, the catch rule, all of this is you have a guy like mike carey, a distinguished official for so super bowl and many other gigantic games in his career. if he was sitting on top of this game id wou have been a different call and all of this

almost some sort of indisputable-type defense in the end whether it's a catch or n catch. he sees it one way. someone elelees it another way and it's just never clear. phil: i understand. you're right, jim. but it's never going to be clear because somewhe along the lines, there's judgment it's like balls and strikes. did itt catch the corner? one umpire says yes, the next says no. jim: that's rawls within a yard of the first. favre but that was aew oneor me. but we've seen some offensive display today here b these teams. we'll look at this interception. kam chancellor has had another outstanding day, by the way. my point is caught it. otball move onon the ground,

mike saw it differently. but again, everybody wants -- i love this one. well, we all know w wt a catch is. i love that one. but we can't leave it at that then we really would have a lot of argumentsv the nfl i trying. they're going to work on it ben this off-season, try and refine the rule, define it even more but i don't know if that's possible. so we're just going to have to live with it. jim: the steteers have used their last time-out and stretching out for the first down is coleman. derrick coleman. enables now the seahawks just to takeke kneeldown or two and call this one complete. if they marked it wh where i thought they were doing -- going to. phil: i know this, the steelers, they have so many good parts to this football team. they just have to find a way to

slowown the other team's passing attack. johnny manziel threw it all over the field on them last week and we saw russell wilson here today have an outstanding today. 28th in the league against the pass and they're going to fall farther after this game. jim: so giving thehe seahawks with the win with 1:09 to go, no ability for pittsburgh to stop the clock. a new set of downs coming up. 6-5, they slide into that sixth spot at the moment. this is all sort of gigantic computer algorithm. phil: i can't get over the wild card in the a.f.c. right now. two teams that we wipedff the map a long time ago, kansas city and houston. so this thing issoing to change

jim: you look back on that field goal try when it got to 32-30 wi the boswell kick. at the timimit made perfect sense to g gahead and kick it. had they gone for it on fourth down and missed, seattle would have been at least pinned deep and you would have had two time-outs, down five. papi: i understand. i likik what he did. no second guessing at all on that decision. they had them on third and long. a runner going free and russe wilson. the coverage wasn't there and the tackling, as you said, all day long by the defensive backs, was bad. jim: it really was. both teams walk off the field at 6-5. 974 yards off total offense. wheaton's 201 yards on nine catches. not in a winning effort for the steelers today. then, of course, the seahawks

wilson has his first five-touchdown performance. they'll be aious to find out the status of jimmy graham. well, the final score here is streetle --eattle 39 and pittsburgh 30. tonight on cbs, there's been an alteration in the lineup. "60 minutes" will be followed by new episodes of "madam secretary" and the good wife. because of the length of this game. "csi: cyber" will be seen next week. phil, it was a doozy. phil: it was awesome.@ a lot of fun to see, a lot of great players, good matchups.s. phil: for phil and tracy and all the crew, jim nantz saying so long from seattle. you've been watching the nfl on s, home of super bowl 50. red 97! set! red 97! did you say 97? yes. you know, that reminds me of geico's 97% customer tisfaction rating.

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>> pelley: the new opening to cuba would not have happened without an old-fashioned swap. cuban sps were being held in u.s. prisonsand the cubans were holding an american named alan gross. gross was a u.s. government contractor who was setting up internet connections in cuba. but the cuban government said he was a spsp it has been nearly a year since gross became the lynchpin for the diplomatic breakthrough. but why was he there? and what were his years in prison like? is is the first interview with the last prisoner of the cold war. >> alan gross: they threatened to hang me. they threatened to pull out my fingernails. they said i'd never see the light of day. i had to do three things in order to survive, three things every day.

survived the holocaust. i exercised religiously every day. and i found something every day to laugh at. >> pelley: did you think, in those early days, "boy, the u.s. government's going to get me out of here in the next week or so"? >> gross: oh, i absolutely did for the first two weeks. and then i said to myself, "where the hell are they? where are they?" i figured... i didn't have any idea i'd be there for five years. i knew i ias in trouble. i knew i was in trouble. >> pelley: alan gross was attracted to trouble. he's 66, a native of maryland, an electronics specialalt who spent 20 years making the rounds of war and disaster, setting up communications for relief agencies. >> gross: and that's why we say when we... when we would connect... when we'd align the antenna and connect to the satellite, we'd be "lighting the

we'd light her up. and we did that in a lot of places. >> pelley: in 2008, the place was cuba. gross was hired by the u.s. agency for international development. u.s.a.i.d. is america's charity, delivering aid all around the world. but in cuba, its mission was different. u.s.a.i.d. asked gross to set up independent internet connections for rhe jewish community. only 5% of cubans were online. but bypassing government censorship was illegal. still, gross put together an equipment list that would do just that. the key was a device called a bgan satellite modem that made a direct connection to a satellite. on his first trip to havana, he put a pipie of tape over the "hughes 9201" model number and walked his equipment through the airport. so, once cuban customs had

cleared your equipment through that very first triri you concluded what from that? >> gross: that bringing equipment into cuba wasn't that difficult. they had every opportunity to stop me from bringing thatat equipment in. they knew what that equipment was, and if they didn't, you know, shame on them. >> pelley: in the spring of 2009, he set up two systems at synagogues. but the people he was helping warned him about getting caught. gross wrote to his supervisors that the project was "playing with fire." it was on his third trip that he spotted trouble. >> gross: i saw a van rolling down the street. and a gentleman was walking next to it with a whip antenna, and it looked like a voltage meter, and essentially he was checking for radio transmissions. and he rolled right by the

>> pelley: after that, gross proposed to u.s.a.i.d. that he add sophisticated equipment that could mask the bgan location. he wrote, "discovery of bgan usage would be catastrophic." you recognized the danger, at that point. why did you go back two more times? >> gross: well, the danger didn't seem so dangerous because i came home. and i still had a contract to fulfill. >> pelley: look, you keep saying you had a contract to fulfill. that's not all that's going on here. >> pellele you believed in thehe work. >> gross: i do believe that access to information is a right for everyone, bui have never interfered or participated in any kind of political activity overseas. >> pelley: you were bringing free speech to an oppressed people under the nose of a government that t d not want that to hahaen. >> gross: three billion people every day log on to the internet

how could that be circumventing now, it might sound a little bit naive. so i'm naive. >> pelley: mr. gross, you can tell me that you... >> gross: you can catl me alan. >> pelley:y:lan, you can tell meme that you believed in what you were doing, but you can't tell me you didn't know what you were doing. >> gross: i knew exactly what i was doing. i oas setting up internet connectivity for the jewish community in cuba. it was very simple-- get them connected. that was it. >> pelley: but it ceased to be simple on his fifth trip when four men pulled him out of his havana hotel. he was driven to a police station where a man who seemed take a pill he said was a sedative. >> gross: so i took the pill. he gave me a juice box, and as i'm m inking the juice boxox swallowing the pill, he says, "that's it, that's right, drink, drink." and i thought i was in an old humphrey bogart movie.

and they took me to a hospital, they took my clothes, they gave me these striped pajamas. >> pelley: you spent the night where? gross: i spent the first night and most of the next five years at the carlos finlay military hospital. >> pelley: here in havana, gross was held in a room 18 feet bi 18 with two other prisoners. every day, for the first year, he was interrogated. >> gross: it was terrible. there was... it was a time of sensory deprivation for me, especially that first year. the place was infested with h ts and roaches. i didn't have any meat, really, for five years. >> pelley: you lost 100 pounds. >> gross: actually, i lost 110 pounds. >> pelley: this is grossith his lawyer d ding his imprpronment. he lost five teeth to lack of nutrition. and yet, he says he forced himself to walk 10,000 steps a day in circles. it turned out his legal case was on the same path. it was more than a year before

he went to trial for subverting the government. >> judy gross: i call it the kangaroo court. >> pelley: his wife judy was in the court. >> judy gross: the prosecutor went on for over an hour, talkg about the united states. never mentioned alan's name. he started, i think, with the eisenhower administration. >> pelley: the united states was on trial and alan was uncle sam. >>ross: absolutely. absolutely. >> pelley: the sentence-- 15 years. >> judy gross: my heart sunk. then i thought, you know, we have to start moving furiously and do everything we can. >> pelley: judy gross held a rally every tuesday outside cuba's unofficial embassy in washington, and she protested at the white house. the worst thing that could hahaen would be for peopop to forget his name. >> judy gross: absolutely. absolutely. >> pelley: and you made sure that didn't happen. >> judy gross: i was afraid that the government had already forgotten his name.

seemed helpless. years stretched on. judy gross lost their home, unable to make the mortgage. there was a time in this imprisonment that you stopped eating. >> gross: i decided that i would go on a hunger strike, to protest both governments' lack of leadership and lack of effort to resolve this situation. it was ridiculous. i wasn't a spy. i wasn't a smuggler. i wasn't a criminal. this is absolutely ridiculous! "cuba, you want to put your finger in the u.s. government's eye? go ahead, but leave me out of it. u.s. govererent, you want to send people to countries where we have no diplomatic relations and run cockamamie programs? go ahead, but leave me out of it! and get t the hell out of here!" >> pelley: one person in washington who felt the same way was senator patrick leahy of

vermont. leahy thought u.s.a.i.d. had bungled a project more suited to the cia, and he had a word for it. why do you say that the u.s.a.i.d. program was "stupid"? >> patrick leahy: well, they're not a spy agency, so#they shouldn't do things that make it look like that.. and i think it was a disservice to all the men and women who work so well for our country with u.s.a.i.d. around the world. >> pelley: in 2010, , ahy asked his top aide, tim rieser, to figure out what cuba wanted for alan gross. >> tim rieser: they were fed up with the u.s.a.i.d. program. i think they also wanted a bargaining chip. they wanted their prisoners back and they wanted to make a point. >> pelley: their prisoners were celebrated in havana as the "cuban five"-- intelligence agents sentenced to long terms in u.s. prisons for espionage. how hard was it for the united

prisoners? >> rieser: i can tell you that when senator leahy first raised this, the response was "it was a non-starter." >> pelley: "impossible." >> rieser: "we're not... we're not doing anything like that." so our response was, "well, then alan gross is going to die in cuba." >> pelley: senator leahy made two trips to cuba. and in 2013, he and hik wife rcelle met adriana perez, the wife of one of the five cubans in u.s. prison. >> leahy: she said to marcelle, "i love my husband the way you love your husband. i may never see him out of prison. i want to have his baby. will you help us?" >> rieser: we talked about it, and if there's something that we can do that the cubans care out that isn't... dodon't cost us anything, why not do it? i talked to the bureau of prisons. i talked to the state department. it became cleaeathat there was

artificial insemination. >> pelley: so rieser arranged for a special delivery from the u.s. prison to a clinic in panama. adriria perez became pregnant, and a new day in cuban relations was born. >> rieser: i think that was reflected in the conversations that the cubans we having with people in the administsttion, also. they each remarked that the tone had changed, the... just the way they talked to each other was better. >> pelley: secret talks, of a different tone, went on for months. gross had no idea. he told his family he would not live another year in prison. then came a rare phone call with s wife. >> gross: and she sa, "alan, we're never going to talk like this again. you get it?" ( laughs ) i got it. i got it. i got it. >> pelley: she couldn't say it in the clear on the phone. >> gross: no. but t e was very clear in n r wording, in her verbiage, that i

>> pelley: the next day-- december 17, 2014-- two planes landed in havana, , e with the cuban prisoners, the other with senator leahy and judy gross. later that morning, president obama announced the trade, which also included an unnamed cuban who had workrk for u.s. intelligence. diplomatic relations were reestablished after more than half a century. en route to america, alan gross got a ca from the president. >> barack obama: and after years in prison, we are overjoyed that alan gross is back where he belongs. welcome home, alan. we're glad you're here. ( applause ) >> pelley: and weeks later, a shout-out at the state of the union address. >> gross: i've worked in 54 countries around the world. every time my plane would touch down on u.s. soil, i was grateful to be home, grateful. and that night, in particular, i was humbled. >> pelley: you know, i'm curious. what did you say to your captors

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chamber. his execution, by lethal injection with a new cocktail of drugs, was supposed to take about ten minutes. it took almost two hours, the longest execution in u.s. histsty. when lethal injections were introduced in 1977, they were supposed to be a more humane form of capital punishment. instead, the process has become a messsstesting ground for unproven toxic drugs. at the heart of the problem-- pharmaceutical companies have banned the use of their drugs for capital punishment, partly under pressure from death penalty opponents. without access to the lethal agents they have used for decades, the states are turning to new, untried drugs. and that's creating an execution crisis in america,a,aking it harder and harder to ensure that, when a state decides to end a life, things don't go

the execution of joseph wood. arizona is one of 31 states to employ capital punishment. cameras ar't allowed here, but this department t corrections video takes us inside death row, where more than 100 inmates are awaiting execution by lethal injection. on july 23, 2014, it was joseph wood's turur wood had been convicted of murdering his former girlfriend and her father. at 1:52 p.m., arizona executioners began pumping an experimental combination of drugs into wood's veins. they had never before used these drugs for execution, but they expected wood to die within minutes. among the tnesses that day were deacon ed s saeffer, wood's attorney, dale baich, and reporter michael kiefer. >> michael kiefer: it seemed to go as normal. theyut in the... the catheters. they announced that they would... were administering thth drug. and he closed his eyes and went to sleep.

quiver. and a minute later, he gasped. a few seconds later, he did it again, and then again and again and again. >> ed schaeffer: it was loud. it wasn't just, you know, some nice, peaceful sleeping sound. >> whitaker: were you thinking at this point, "something's gone wrong"? >> kiefer: everybody was thinking something went wrong. u could see the looks on the faces of the people from the department of corrections, who were... who were standing along the side. you know, they were looking at each other nervously. >> whitaker: you tried to have the execution stopped? >> baich: while e e wood was on the table gasping and gulping, we were arguing to a federal judge that he should stop the execution. >> whitaker: on what grounds? >> b bch: that it wasn't working. >> schaeffer: i actually said about four rosaries, four complete rosaries, and there's

five decades to each rosary. and each one can take anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes. >> whitaker: and that told you that this was going on for a very long time? >> schaeffer: hour and 58 minutes. >> kiefer: that's a long time to be sittingnghere, watching somebody die. >> whitaker: before the federal judge could rule, joseph wood was dead. it was supposed to take justne dose of the drugs to kill him. prison logs show, before it was over, executioners had injected wood 15 times with the new cocktail of drugs. >> baich: someone made the decisionono inject 14 additional doses of that drug into mr. wood. that's not something that has ever bn done before. so, they were making it up as they went along. >> whitaker: in several rulings, the supreme court has reaffirmed the eighth amendment-- punishment must not be cruel and unusua joseph wood's lingererg death

set off alarms across the country and prompted an independent investigation in arizona. was joseph wood's execution botched? >> mark brnovich: well, billi think "botched" is a very inflammamary word. >> whitaker: arizona attorney general mark brnovich told us he sees nothing wrong in the way wood's execution was carried out. it took almost twoours. that's the longest execution in u.s. history. >> brnovich: at the end of the day, though, the independent report, the medical examiner, alconcluded that mr. wood was sedated the entire time, was unresponsive to stimuli, and he was feeling no pain whatsoever. >> whitaker: but how do you know that? >> brnovich: well, obviously, at... at the end of the day... >> whitaker: were there sensors? was anybody taking brain... you know, hohodo you know he wasn'n' feeling pain?? >> brnovich: well, ultimately, you can't know, because the person's dead. >> whitaker: so if two hours isn't too long, what is? three hours? would that cause alarm? four hours? >> brnovich: i thihi two hours, three hours, four hours-- when someone's on the death gurney and they're unconscious, i don't think they're worried about the

time. in this instance, it happened to take longer, but that does not mean that it was bototed. >> whihiker: what would you call it? >> brnovich: i would call it that you had somebody who is a heinous killer that murdered people in cold blood, and eventually received justice. whitaker: there's n ndispute of jososh wood's guilt. in august of 1989, wood, a 31- year-old vet addicted to methamphetamines, walked into this auto body shop in tucson, arizona, shot and killed his former girlfriend, debra dietz, and her father, eugene dietz, in cold blood in broad daylight. richard and jeannie brn remember that day well. you actually saw joe wood kill your... >> richard brown: ...sister-in- law. she's saying "no, joe, don't do it, don't do it," and he shot her anyways. it was one of the worst days of my life. in 40 seconds, eugene dietz and deborah dietz were dead. >> jeannie brown: and my mom looked at me and she walked up and gave me a hug, and she said "your dad and sister were just killed." >> whitaker: y y witnessed his

execution?