at the age of 17 john ferguson started to have visual hallucinations.tedly after the age of 23 when he was first diagnosed, he was diagnosed and confirmed to have paranoid schizophrenia, mental illness. so what does that say about the ways in which the state of florida carries out executions, as well as the other states throughout the country carries out executions. >> in june, i believe, governor rick scott of florida signed a bill into law, the timely justice act, which is aimed at speeding up the death penalty process. it's worth discussing the case of warren lee hill who's sort of another ferguson-like figure insofar as his mental sort of acute has been questioned. he's awaiting execution and you say in large part that's because there's sort of discrepancy and debate over the lethal injection and that's basically what's keeping him alive. can you just sort of explain the dynamics of that case? >> sure. what has prevented the state of georgia from taking warren hill's life is a lethal injection secrecy act. this is about transparency around the drugs

sayers for john ferguson his death violated the eighth of moment which requires a person to understand the reason for his execution and the impact the death penalty will have. they said ferguson believed he would rise again after his execution to fight alongside jesus christ and save the country from a communist plot. ferguson was sentenced to death in 1978 for his role in two sets of killings. he die by lethal injection at 6:00 p.m. eastern time on monday. his final words were, "i just want everyone to know, i am the prince of god and i will rise again. co britain's metropolitan police have apologized to the family of a man killed by an officer during london's street 20 protest in 2009. ian tomlinson was a newspaper seller who played no role in the protest. he was walking home with his hands in his pockets when the police constable struck them with a proton and should -- baton and shoved him from behind. initially pathologist said he died from heart attack but it was later found he died from internal bleeding. the officer was acquitted of manslaughter last year later fired for gross m

i was matthew feeney assistant editor at reason twenty four seven and in florida on monday john erol ferguson was executed by lethal injection his attorneys say their client was insane sixty five year old was convicted of killing eight people in south florida in the one nine hundred seventy s. ferguson was scheduled to be executed in october of two thousand and twelve but appeals at the state and federal level kept the execution from going forward now ferguson's lawyers contend their client was mentally ill and suffered from schizophrenia since he was a teenager they say several different psychiatry's determine over the years that ferguson wasn't mentally ill most of those evaluations came when ferguson was in a state mental hospital in the one nine hundred seventy. and other news a divided supreme court on friday ruled that california must proceed with the release of nearly ten thousand prisoners from its overcrowded prison system their supreme court refused to grant california an extension on an order issued by the justices more than two years ago for the state to release some ten thousand

john thorne? >> kohl? david cole. >> bill: i thought there was a -- >> former head. there is another wall street -- fergusonll: i haven't heard that name. it must have been cole. so do you think it is a lock for summers? >> yes. i do. at this point. look, you know, i think yellen has a lot of support in the senate. but if the president comes forward with summers, i think there are certainly the six or eight republican votes they'll need there. the fact that he made these sort of sexist comments about women and the fact that you have -- who should be potentially be the first female head of the fed and that is not -- you know, been that big of a story -- it has not been the biggest part of this. the story has primarily been you know, the white house sort of just insisting on it being summers. it hasn't come to that. i think it says to me that this is pretty much a done deal at this point. not sure what you can do. >> there's over half of the democratic female legislators in the house signed a letter for yellen, for janet yellen. there is enormous kind of support for yellen in the senate. i think if you nomina