drops him for a loss of a couple. for those of you expecting to see "60 minutes," you're watching the nfl on cbs, the steelers and the seahawks. start. jim nantz, phil simms, tracy wolfson and our entire team here. lance barrow, mike arnold and the crew. "60 minutes" will be seen in its entirety immediately follow coast. second and 12. in traffic, roethlisberger fortunate to throw that one into the ground because sherman had 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 all over him. jim: so third and 12 for

with 6:30 remaining. darius heyward-bey makes rare appearance. a pass to williams. shakes off the tackle! what a big breakaway from jeremy lane to pick up the first. they were going to stop him three or four yards short. it was going 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. boy, deangelo williams might be 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 clock.

a chance to remind you, next sunday, regional action, including the jets and the giants. houston on a hot streak up at buffalo. baltimore-miami, jacksonville-tennessee. some will see their game late. denver-san diego or kansas 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 pittsburgh steelers -- they were, 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

but down five. pump fake and wide open and falling for the first is will johnson. phil: they're trying to get something different. they finally moved antonio brown to get him a little double move but the defense stayed back. another good job of finding the secondary receiver by ben roethlisberger. jim: fourth first down of this drive. a drive that saw a 28-yard pass play taken away off a successful 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'm actually seeing the seahawks play a couple of defenses that

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. but the good thing is, the 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. roethlisberger backs off his own

out of bounds. phil: well, the play -- i guess 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: 456, an all-time record by the seattle opposing quarterback. second and goal. back of the 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

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. takes on 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 goal. 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

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 that 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 cleveland on espn. 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. wilson loosening up. he's had his first four-touchdown game of the

season last week. phil: 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 talking 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.

jim: i'd try to do something different. 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, 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.

flag. mike tomlin already saying he's going to refuse it. referee: illegal formation, offense. number 79. he was on the end of the line uncovered. that penalty is declined. second down. phil: so the wide receiver to the side to have 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-out. jim: second and 7. rawls, he lost the football!

back at 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 first! it's baldwin. shaking free and sprinting 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 it all day. they have the blitz coming. bud dupree is coming free but russell wilson did not flinch. here comes dupree around. 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 extra point. we've already seen hauschka miss one. it's huge. to make it a two-score different rble. -- differential. this one's good. terrible tackling today by the pittsburgh defensive backs.

no. it's their offense the last few weeks and ben roethlisberger, i don't think he's going to come back in. jim: talking to the team doctor, dr. james bradley. 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. phil: saw him on the field before the game today. my man. jim: jacoby jones is hammered at the 17! what a tackle there by marsh. we have the two-minute warning. and landry jones is coming in. you know that "wow, i'm starving" feeling? well subway has you covered. now get 50% more meat on any 6-inch sub for just 50 more, in celebration of our 50th anniversary.

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follow bid "madam secretary," 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 the sideline. 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 that drive. he stayed in on the rest of that drive. here's a second and 10. over to williams. somehow he gets free and he's

off and running. to the 48 of seattle. with 1:45 to go and two time-outs. phil: man, what a good call and deangelo williams. if you think 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 for the game. phil: 1:45, two time-outs. always knowing it takes two scores so if you get in a situation where you have to, you kick the field goal first. jim: going for the long ball and the big strike and a jump ball. kam chancellor came down with it. it's in the hands, though, at the end of bryant.

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? because bryant ends up with it. 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? phil: you have to get 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 ends up with the football.

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. jim: mike 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 possession 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 incomplete at that spot. phil: wow. that is --

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 players have the ball and the ball comes loose. it's kind of survival 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 an interception stands. first down. jim: mike what did they say -- see that you didn't see? mike: what they went with was they believed there wasn't 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 he goes

out of bounds. when the ball comes loose at this point it's being ripped away from the defender. opinion. jim: all right, mike carive. now here is the problem, as they 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 many years, presided over a super bowl and many other gigantic games in his career. if he was sitting on top of this game it would have been a different call and all of this is supposed to get back to almost some sort of indisputable-type defense in the end whether it's a catch or no catch. he sees it one way. someone else sees 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 somewhere along the lines, there's judgment it's like balls and strikes.

did it 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 a new one for me. but we've seen some offensive display today here by these teams. we'll look at this interception. kam chancellor has had another outstanding day, by the way. my point is caught it. football move on the ground, possession, now they rip it, fight. mike saw it differently. but again, everybody wants -- i love this one. well, we all know what a catch is. i love that one. but we can't leave it at that then we really would have a lot of arguments. the nfl is trying. they're going to work on it ben this off-season, try and refine

but i don't know if that's possible. so we're just going to have to live with it. jim: the steelers have used their last time-out and stretching out for the first down is coleman. derrick coleman. enables now the seahawks just to take a 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 slow down 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

jim: so giving the 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 wiped off the map a long time ago, kansas city and houston. so this thing is going to change a lot. jim: you look back on that field goal try when it got to 32-30 with the boswell kick. at the time it made perfect sense to go ahead 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 like what he did. no second guessing at all on

they had them on third and long. a runner going free and russell 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 of total offense. wheaton's 201 yards on nine catches. not in a winning effort for the steelers today. then, of course, the seahawks will be anxious. wilson has his first five-touchdown performance. they'll be anxious to find out the status of jimmy graham. well, the final score here is streetle -- seattle 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.

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but why was he a prisoner there, and what were those years like? >> i wasn't a spy. >> pelley: this is the first interview with the last prisoner from the cold war. >> this is absolutely ridiculous. "cuba, you want to put your finger into the u.s. government's eye, go ahead but leave me out of it." >> whitaker: five years ago, when arizona needed drugs to execute an inmate named jeffrey landrigan, it purchased them illegally from a supplier operating out of this driving school in london. >> it's my understanding that there was a paperwork issue. the proper forms weren't filled out. >> whitaker: was it used in the execution of mr. landrigan? >> yes. >> whitaker: this office, the state of arizona, knew or should have known that it was illegal to import these drugs? >> bill, i was not the attorney general when that happened. >> whitaker: yeah, but this... >> and i don't want to use that as an excuse, because i think there's a broader... >> whitaker: but if this office is... this is the top legal office. >> right. >> okay, you good? >> yeah. >> okay.

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was a spy. 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? this 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. i thought about my family that 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 was in trouble. i knew i was in trouble. >> pelley: alan gross was attracted to trouble. he's 66, a native of maryland, an electronics specialist 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 candle." 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 the 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 piece of tape over the "hughes 9201" model number and walked his equipment through the airport. so, once cuban customs had cleared your equipment through on that very first trip, you concluded what from that? >> gross: that bringing equipment into cuba wasn't that difficult. they had every opportunity to stop me from bringing that 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 synagogue. >> 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. >> gross: no, that's it. >> pelley: you believed in the work. >> gross: i do believe that access to information is a right for everyone, but i 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 did not want that to happen. >> gross: three billion people every day log on to the internet around the world. how could that be circumventing the government? now, it might sound a little bit naive. so i'm naive. >> pelley: mr. gross, you can tell me that you... >> gross: you can call me alan. >> pelley: alan, you can tell me 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 was 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 to be a doctor ordered him to take a pill he said was a sedative. >> gross: so i took the pill. he gave me a juice box, and as i'm drinking the juice box, 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 by 18 with two other prisoners. every day, for the first year,

>> gross: it was terrible. there was... it was a time of sensory deprivation for me, especially that first year. the place was infested with ants 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 gross with his lawyer during his imprisonment. 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, talking 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. >> gross: 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 happen would be for people 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. >> pelley: the government that sent alan gross on his mission 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

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. government, 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 me 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

world. >> pelley: in 2010, leahy asked his top aide, tim ries, 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 states to give up these five 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 his wife

marcelle 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 about that isn't... doesn't cost us anything, why not do it? i talked to the bureau of prisons. i talked to the state department. it became clear that there was only one option, and that was artificial insemination. >> pelley: so rieser arranged for a special delivery from the u.s. prison to a clinic in panama. adriana perez became pregnant, and a new day in cuban relations was born. >> rieser: i think that was reflected in the conversations that the cubans were having with people in the administration, 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 his wife. >> gross: and she said, "alan, we're never going to talk like you get it?" ( laughs ) i got it. i got it. in the clear on the phone. >> gross: no. but she was very clear in her wording, in her verbiage, that i was coming home. >> pelley: the next day-- december 17, 2014-- two planes landed in havana, one with the cuban prisoners,he other with senator leahy and judy gross. later that morning, president obama announced the trade, which also included an unnamed cuban who had worked for u.s. intelligence. diplomatic relations were reestablished after more than

half a century. en route to america, alan gross got a call 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 on leaving? >> gross: hasta la vista, baby. >> pelley: seriously. >> gross: seriously. >> cbs money watch update sponsored by lincoln financial. calling all chief life officers. >> glor: good evening. 150 world leaders in paris for a

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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, making it harder and harder to ensure that, when a state decides to end a life, things don't go horribly awry, as they did in the execution of joseph wood. arizona is one of 31 states to employ capital punishment. cameras aren't allowed here, but this department of 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 turn. wood had been convicted of

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 witnesses that day were deacon ed schaeffer, wood's attorney, dale baich, and reporter michael kiefer. >> michael kiefer: it seemed to go as normal. they put in the... the catheters. they announced that they would... were administering the drug. and he closed his eyes and went to sleep. >> dale baich: and about 11 minutes in, i noticed his lip 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. you 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 joe 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? >> baich: 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 sitting there, watching somebody die. >> whitaker: before the federal judge could rule, joseph wood was dead.

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 decision to inject 14 additional doses of that drug into mr. wood. that's not something that has ever been 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 unusual. joseph wood's lingering death set off alarms across the country and prompted an independent investigation in arizona. was joseph wood's execution botched? >> mark brnovich: well, bill, i think "botched" is a very inflammatory 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 two hours. that's the longest execution in u.s. history.

>> brnovich: at the end of the day, though, the independent report, the medical examiner, all concluded 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, how do you know he wasn't 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 think 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 botched. >> whitaker: 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 no dispute of joseph wood's guilt. in august of 1989, wood, a 31- year-old vet addicted to

methamphetamines, walked into