they also are the distributor of midazolam which is getting into prisons.ly the same distribution agreement, same contractual legal arrangements to this other drug that they use. >> yeah, you're correct. akorn took over, basically took over the rights of pentobarbital and kept that distribution agreement in place. certainly the model is there if they chose to apply it to the distribution of midazolam. >> wow. so it's not only there, it's there in their own company. i have to ask you, a federal judge this week in a ruling about arizona said if we are going to execute people, we need to go back to systems that work. basically saying that lethal injection logistically doesn't work to kill people efficiently enough. in your work in this in the legal clinical context, do you think that's where the legal argument is going? >> certainly we've seen a lot of statements from legislators, attorneys general departments. it seems a lot like bluster and i think it betrays their frustration with not being able to carry out executions by lethal injection. it shows how much

all of them midazolam. there are two companies that manufacturer midazolam, both based in illinois.ne of those two companies says they do not want their drug, they do not want their midazolam to be used by prisons to kill people. it's not at all clear if the company put in place real restrictions to stop that from happening. we've seen it happen with other drugs. they say don't want it used. it's not clear that they've actually stopped their drug from going into prisons. that's one of the two. that's called sagent. s-a-g-e-n-t. there's another company in illinois, akorn, and they're fine with that drug used to kill people in experimental measures all over the country now, at least three of which have been botched to point of getting national headlines. this other company called akorn, they appear to have no policy about the death penalty at all. the company is called akorn, spelled with a "k," a-k-o-r-n. it was used in the execution last night in arizona that took nearly two hours to kill the man. joining us, robin konrad, one of joseph wood's lawyers. some of her words i was readin

that's why we don't use it anymore and that's why we're using midazolam. as long as drug companies are in a situation they don't want to be seen as villains here, we're never going to have disclosure that we need. we must understand something must be done whether the litigation is ripe enough or not, we have to know what happened in the last three lethal injections in the united states was not humane, it was not, and we have to come to terms with that. >> there's a judge who is the chief judge in the 9th circuit court of appeals wrote a critique of lethal injection in the case of wood and said the following, he said, perhaps the firing squad strikes him as the most promising alternative, eight to ten large caliber rifle bullets fired at close range can inflict massive damage causing instant death every time. plenty of people employed by the state who can pull the trigger and have training to aim true. firing squads can be mess q. but if willing to carry out executions we should not shield ourselves from reality that we are shedding human blood. from firing

midazolam is given but it's unclear what role that drug played in woods' execution. >>> this morning the prime minister says he does not think there'll be a cease-fire for days. secretary john kerry is back in egypt after failing to carry out a truce. late last night the faa lifted its ban on u.s. flights to tel aviv's airport. it was put in place tuesday after a hamas rocket landed nearby. don champion is nearby. good morning, don. >> good morning. even though the ban has been listed it does not mean airlines will start flights to tel aviv right away. meantime as peace talks continue, fighting rages on. american airlines could once again fly into the airport after the faa lifted the ban. in a statement overnight the agency said it lifted the ban after getting new information on measures the israeli government is taking to assure safety of flights in and out of the airport. the decision of banning flights had been met with harsh criticism of the israeli government. >> the real answer to the danger of flying not to stop the flying but to stop the rockets. >> reporter: the ban had been

arizona decided to follow the lead of the state of ohio and use the mixture of hydromorphone and midazolam to carry out this execution when they were fully aware of the problems that have occurred in ohio. >> really quickly, cassandra for folks who may not have been following the story close over the last few months, what are the problems that have been associated with these drug cocktails? >> well, as the attorney just referenced, these are experimental cocktails. you know, we don't really know that and don't have any reason to know that they would work. in fact, we have reason to know they don't work. what we saw in ohio, when an execution goes as planned, the inmate should be sedated and the process should go quickly. instead, we're seeing that inmates are gasping for breath. they're writhing and snorting and snoring. all these signs that they are not conscious and as a result are experiencing perhaps incredible pain. that's the real warnings that we've now seen time and time again with these horrible botched executions. >> we know at this point that there's going to be this review orde

now, the issue here is also has to do with this drug, midazolam, which was involved in two recent executionst were quite flawed. one in ohio, where the person being executed showed signs of respiratory distress. and the other in oklahoma. and so both of these come play here. the -- arizona is planning on using the same protocol basically as ohio used. okay? so that's where they're trying to find out where the drugs come from. the oklahoma situation, or the qualifications for the medical personnel kind of comes out of the oklahoma situation because they used the procedure by which they do a central line. that is they insert a catheter in the femoral artery, and in oklahoma, they went right through the vein, so the drugs weren't delivered actually into the bloodstream. well, that's a method that's frequently used here in arizona. so if it's not done correctly. so those are the two issues. so the state's argument is that if we tell you everything, then these drugs will increasingly become unavailable and we won't be able to carry out executions. and the defense's argument is we have a right to