oklahoma's attempt to execute two men went terribly wrong last night and now oklahoma governor, mary fallonissued an immediate investigation and stay of excuse for one man. so last night oklahoma corrections officials were using a new three-drug injection combination and it took lockett 43 minutes to die. witnesses say he clenched, thrashed, clenched his teeth. >> this is a horrible thing to witness. one of the things he said is "something's wrong," he said "man" at one point and he kept trying to raise up. >> charles warner was scheduled to be executed. but in the wake of the first execution, governor fallon postponed the second injection. there's no set protocol for the drug combination in oklahoma. you have other states, texas, georgia, missouri, they've been refusing to reveal their ingredients. >> are they safe, are they legal, have they been imported from back alley suppliers, as has happened in some cases? have they been made by unregulated companies? this is the thing that we never want to happen but it's our fear and the reason that we need to have complete transparency in the proc

. >> and the corrections director robert patton made the decision to stop the execution, and mary fallon issued a 14-day stay for the second conviction of a rapist and rapist charles warner scheduled for later that night. lockett died at 7:06 of massive heart attack. 3 -- 43 minutes into a process that should last six minutes. and we go to a witness of the botched execution from tulsa. we know that the execution start started at 6:23 p.m., and at 7:06 clayton lockett died and walk us through the experience as a witness. >> well, at a 6:23, the curtains in the execution room went up, and we were witnessed the inmate laying on the gurney with a white sheet. he had no last words. and the execution began, and then ten minutes later they announced him unconscious, and this is the fourth execution that i have covered and they don't normally pronounce that. it was three minutes that past. and then he began to have a rather violent reaction for three minutes. he with was grimacing, clinching his jaw, and the body was shaking, and several times his entire head and shoulders lifted up off of the g

and tonight, the republican governor, mary fallon, signed it. in the house, the bill was sponsored by the same guy who wanted to ban marriage for straight people. but while his banning the law didn't go anywhere in oklahoma his sun tax will actually become law tonight. this idea, however, was not born in oklahoma, a couple of years ago the corporate-funded network of state legislator's called alec started to adopt the legislation for using legislation, they tried to say states get a portion of their energy from renewable sources. they tried to tax or fine people who had solar panels on their house and are using electricity that way. so if you're concerned by energy, thinking we need to try to move on from oil and coal and gas and pick more sustainable ways of generating electricity, on the one hand here is the fossil fuel industry trying to destroy the sun, right, trying to destroy any chance of energy taking hold. on the other hand, maybe it is nice that they care, that solar energy is now viable enough to be a threat to the oil and gas and coa

five justices who voted for the stay and in the governor's office, oklahoma republican governor mary fallonsaid she couldn't abide and keep her oath of office. she set a new date for the executions, defying the court, for tonight. the oklahoma supreme court decided that they would cave essentially, lift the stay they put in place. the state moved forward with the executions. the first was scheduled for 6:00 p.m. local time tonight. the second for two hours later, 8:00 p.m. local time. when a state executes a prisoner it is typical for reporters to cover it and write about it. they don't allow cameras or videotape into the sight of an execution. at least print reporters are allowed to describe what happens. tonight in oklahoma the first reporting from the first execution appeared on twitter. from an a.p. reporter named bailey mcbride. the first tweet said, quote, first execution botched. second stayed. another reporter on the scene said 15 a minutes into the execution the prisoner sat up and said, something is wrong. prison officials say they will try to get mr. lockett to the hospital to re

and it's expected to be signed by republican governor mary fallon.xes something that republicans tend not to like very much. solar power. it allows utility companies to impose a surcharge on customers who install solar powers or small wind turbines. here's the deal, if you install solar on your roof in most places in the u.s., including oklahoma there are many times where you generate more power than you use, and you can sell that power back to the grid often at retail prices. utility companies do not like that. they say solar power users aren't paying their fair share of infrastructure costs so utility companies have lobbied state legislatures in plenty of states across the country, including oklahoma, to tax you. you see, utility companies call it a fee. or a supercharge, but it's basically a monthly tax. and hat does that do? it makes solar less appealing. because there is no bigger threat to utility companies in the world than cheap, efficient solar energy. it blows the doors off the whole system. and look at what is happening to solar. solar pro

governor mary fallon has signed a bill that bans cities and counties from setting their own minimum wageit creates a hardship for small business owners. joining me now is state representative eric proctor, who is strongly against that bill. sir, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> before i get your opinion on your view, the governor said most minimum wage workers are single people working at entry level jobs, and it would require businesses to fire many of those part-time workers and create a hardship for small business owners and increase costs. your reaction to that statement released by the governor? >> one of oklahoma's favorite sons will rogers said it's not what you don't know gets you in trouble, it's what just ain't so. no americans should work a full-time job and live in poverty. what this governor here in oklahoma did, is just simply wrong. to silence the voice, you all sit down, shut up, we got this, don't worry about it, we're going to stifle your voices, it's wrong. it is immoral. >> the minimum wage would have increased to $10.10 an hour, which w

where on monday governor mary fallon joined her republican colleagues and signed into law a bill thattown in her state from establishing its own minimum wage. some activists in oklahoma city had been attempting to gain support to raise that city's minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.10. exactly the figure president obama is pushing at the federal level. now, in signing the bill, fallon mentioned outstated assumptions that minimum wage workers are, quote, young, single people working part time or entry-level jobs. or high school or college students living with their parents in middle-class families. which is absolutely 100% not true. here's a more recent profile of minimum wage workers. studies show their average wage is about 35. many of them are definitely single, meaning single moms, raising children. 56% of workers earning minimum wage are women. 28% have children. and more than half work full time. and nationally, that means there are more americans working both full time for the minimum wage and being unable to afford food. hello, walmart and mickey d.'s. enter food stamps. th

just last hour, oklahoma governor mary fallon talked about the botched execution in her state. >> afterth the department of corrections director robert patton, we agree that an independent review of the department of corrections procedures would be effective and also appropriate. >> fallon stayed for two weeks the execute of an inmate slated to be put to death last night after another execution was botched leading to a gruesome scene. 38-year-old clayton lockette, convicted of a 1999 rape, kidnapping and murder was brought into the death chamber, had drugs administered but they did not kill him quick lip. here's the "today" show on how it happened. >> reporter: lockette was set to be executed using a new experimental cocktail of three drugs. the execution began at 6:23 p.m. when officials administered the first drug, a sedative to lockette. >> at that time we began pushing the second and third drugs in the protocol. there was some concern at that time that the drugs were not having the effect. >> reporter: prison officials declared lockette unconscious at 6:33 p.m. but over the next six

connecticut, delaw e delaware, west virginia and washington d.c., different story in oklahoma, governor mary fallonust signed a bill banning individual cities from raising minimum wage. we saw that happening in washington state. on the other side of the issue, a pair of senators in pennsylvania recently introduced a bill that would raise that state's minimum wage to a whopping $12 an hour. mike stack joins me now from philadelphia. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> so you hear critics like governor fallon who argue that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs and hurt small businesses and she defended her ban by saying, quote, most minimum wage workers are young, single people working part-time or entry-level jobs. is that true and why do you feel $12 is the right policy? >> that's not true. it's anecdotal as opposed to factual and most people receiving minimum wage are hard-working folks. they're not young people necessarily and probably about two-thirds of minimum wage workers are women so it's essentially paying women a much lower wage which is exploitive and so realistically, it's about

. >> governor mary fallon ordered a 14-day stay of execution for another inmate also set to die last night. >> new e-mails over the obama's administration in response to benghazi. the documents were concerned by the conservative organization judicial watch. four americans died, including ambassador chris stevens. bill plante is at the white house this morning. >> reporter: good morning to our viewers in the west. judicial watch documents do suggest that the white house in shaping its talking points in the benghazi attacks deliberately twisted the facts so the president would look good in his reelection campaign. one e-mail was send from ben rhodes, the brother of cbs news president david rhodes. it was addressed to white house officials, including spokesman jay carney who would help prethen u.n. ambassador susan rice to present the administration response. it listed several goals for rice. among them, to underscore that these protests are rooted in an internet video and not a broader failure of policy. also to reinforce the president and administration's strength. rice on all the sun

the measure there now goes to the desk of governor mary fallon. what about congress? 2009 in koep haguen president obama pledged he would get a sweeping climate change bill sign signed into law. but a few months later, that bill died in the senate. in the wake of the u.n. report this week, it's pretty much crickets on capitol hill unless you count the congressman who said he didn't believe climate change was manmade. the article says $ 2.5 billion is in danger of being cut by congress. so how many wakeup calls do we kbet when it comes to climate change? the u.s. and china are the biggest polluters. is there an appetite to do something about that? what has to be done to awaken. we want to talk about that with our pachbl. we have bill ney along with coral davenport. and the director of strategy at energy initiative at george mason university. and sam stein, a white house correspondent and political editor with "the huffington post." coral, i will start with you. you're covering this this week. if you could give us the bottom line of what this report is saying. people ha

. >> reporter: oklahoma governor mary fallon ordered an investigation into the incident and issued anr granting a two-week delay in executions in the state. this incident puts the death penalty debate right back on center stage. in a recent cnn poll taken a couple months ago, 50% of americans favor a death penalty over a life sentence for murder. carol? >> all right. pamela brown reporting live from washington. as pamela said, this botched execution will have a ripple effect across the country. is this three drug cocktail really humane? join me now is dr. sanjay gupta and we have a criminal defense attorney and former homicide prosecutor. welcome to both of you. >> good morning. >> so prison officials shot three drugs into lockett. the first a sedative. the next is a paralytic and the third stops his heart, essentially killing him. what went wrong? >> it appears in this case the sedative, the first drug, it's unclear how much he got. at some point the vein blew. you give medicine through the vein but the vein blew. you don't know exactly how much he's getting anymore. it throws off ev

oklahoma governor mary fallon issued the executive order to stay the executions, but under protest, writinge supreme court was, quote, outside the constitutional authority of that body. one state representative even introduced a resolution calling for the impeachment of the five justices who voted for the delay. then on wednesday, the state supreme court ruled that in fact the state does have the right to keep the source of lethal injection drugs secret, lifting the stay and effectively declaring the executions could move forward. in a concurring opinion, state justice steven taylor called the inmates' appeal frivolous and said that if they were to be hanged, they would have no right to know whether it be by cotton or nylon rope. of course the drugs that make up the lethal injection are not rope. in fact they are a combination of drugs that are experimental, never before used in the quantities that oklahoma plans to use, leaving serious questions about whether the executions will comport with the eight amendment's ban on cruel and unusual suffering. the executions are now set for tuesday. o

. >> mary fallon ordered an investigation into what happened and issued an executive order granting a two-week delay in executions. chris and kate? >> wool see if that sticks and how long that stay will need to be to complete that investigation. pamela, thank you. >>> also this morning. there's universal praise for nba commissioner adam silver's decision that came yesterday to ban donald sterling for life after his racist ranting. making sterling go away doesn't seem it's going to be easy. it's not clear yet if the league can get other owners to force him out or if sterling will challenge the decision in court. meantime, the clippers had a pivotal playoff game last night at home. cnn's stephanie elam was at the staples center. she joins us live from los angeles this morning. a big win last night, stephanie, in many ways. >> reporter: a big win indeed, kate. there was a small spattering of people who did protest and still angry about the situation with donald sterling. for the most part fans came out and inside the staples center, the energy was palpable. a rousing show of support as t