stefanini nyman of perry oklahoma. it doesn't come up and we need to start talking about the collateral consequences of the victim in america. thank you. [applause] >> thank you scott for living up to all my expectations. [laughter] general geraghty. >> thank you. i am not a career prosecutor though in my state i do have responsibility for the district and criminal attorneys so it's been a bit of a learning experience. we have something called the criminal justice working group which is similar to what general van hollen was describing an interagency group. we have no funding but it's cochaired by myself in the justice on the alaska supreme court. the public defenders are part of it. , community agencies are involved in the process so there's a group of maybe 30 of us and we meet several times a year to talk about these issues. i was struck and we talk about statistics but the one that comes to my mind is the u.s. has 5% of the world's population yet we house 25% of the world's prisoners. and at least in alaska 60% of

people who are family members of stephanie nyman of perry, oklahoma. it doesn't come up. we need to start talking about the collateral consequences of the victims of crime in america. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, scott, for living up to all my expectations about what you would say. [laughter] >> i didn't swear that much. a little. >> general garrity. >> thank you for sugarcoating that, scott. i'm not a career prosecutor, though in my state i do have responsibility for all district attorneys and so it's been a bit of a learning experience and with something called the criminal justice working group which is over to what general dunn holland was describing, an interagency group. we have no funding but it is co-chaired by myself and the justice on the supreme court but the court system, corrections involve community agencies that are involved in the process. a group of maybe 30 of us and we meet several times a year to talk of all these issues. i was struck by the fact, we throw rent statistics but the one that caught my attention was the uss boxer 5% of the worlds po

texas governor rick perry is weighing in on the oklahoma lethal injection controversy. in an interview on this morning's "meet the press," governor perry, whose state leads the nation in death penalties, argued that any reform should be made on the state level. >> in texas for substantially long period of time our citizens have decided that if you kill our children, if you kill our police officers for those very heinous crimes that the appropriate punishment is the death penalty. >> was this inhumane? >> i don't know whether it was inhumane or not but it was botched. >> so it's not quite super, but in tuesday is the first big primary day of the mid-term elections. on the calendar are indiana, north carolina, and ohio. surely the biggest name on the ballot is former "american idol" star clay aiken who is running for north carolina's second congressional district. and while most of the washington establishment was at the correspondents' dinner last night cracking jokes, hillary clinton was in chicago where she received her home state of illinois's highest award, the order

he was born in perry, oklahoma, educated at the university of minnesota and harvard university where he earned a master's degree in architecture in 1930. he was in rotc, he wasn't militarily trained. he was an instructor at r.p.i. in troy, new york, and then director of the department of design at the boston museum of school of fine arts in my own district. then he went to the faculty of the university of minnesota until he enlisted in 1942. not got drafted, enlisted. yes, to protect america, but also to take his special expertise to do something special in a difficult situation. he was killed in action when he was caught in a fire fight that, as usual in many military actions, wasn't suppose ts to -- supposed to happen then and there. that tells you something about who these people were. they were there to help the is next generation and generations to come maintain that line of connection. and they did it. and for that they deserve this honor, they deserve our undying gratitude and with that again i want to add my thanks to theirs -- for their actions, my thanks to representative g

. >> because as you know, the governor rick perry after what happened in oklahoma doubled down and saidcontinues to support the capital punishment, and it is appropriate in the case cases. >> he did. the attorney general who has issued three opinions in the last four years saying that there should be openness certainly has had his staff continue to litigate against that. and so there are some politics involved here. but i do believe that one more botched execution like we saw in oklahoma, and the supreme court will step in and allow sunlight into the process of executions in texas, oklahoma and nation woo nationwi nationwide. >> jonathan ross and ziva branstetter, thank you for being on the program once again. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> and john mccain says he wants to see the american troop s on the ground helping in the search for 276 kidnapped nigerian schoolgirls. the parents of 77 of the girls have identified them from the tapes put out by the terrorist groups holding them boko haram, and the same time the search continues, and yesterday the high altitude and long distance ame

perry. >> our execution is different from oklahoma, because we use one drug, but i am confident in the wayhat the executions are taken care of in the state of texas are appropriate. >> and humane? >> and humane. >> and the key here is cruel and unusual punishment as it is written in the constitution, and how does this play into it? >> well, here is how it plays into it. the current batch of the pent bash toll which is what the state uses, they have just done three executions. in one of the executions, one of the inmates said that it was burning. he had a burning sensation before he died. pent b pentibarbitol has been used in oklahoma and other places where they have said that they have had a burning agent, and this is made by a pharmacy that has no fda oversight and could have incredible contamination in the facility that they make it, and not a reputable drugmaker, but we are introducing cruel and unusual punishment into the proce process. the attorney general of texas said that this information should be made public in three opinions, but now because they have trouble with the sourcing -

governor rick perry defended his state system as appropriate. so as oklahoma investigates what went wrong there the death penalty as a concept and in its application remains the law of the land for now. joining me now is the attorney representing mr. campbell, maurie levin. your client was convicted of a murder of a woman captured at a gas station. your claim is not innocence. is that correct? >> that's right. there are two claims. the first is that he's mentally retarded or intellectually disabled which makes him exempt from execution according to the supreme court in 2002. the second claim has to do with secrecy with which texas is pursuing execution by lethal injection despite the events in oklahoma two weeks ago. >> let's take the first claim. i read the fifth circuit's ruling today. as i understand it, the state of texas essentially withheld evidence of the intellectual capacity of your client for more than a decade. is that correct? >> that's right. not only did they hold that information despite specific requests, they then opposed mr. campbell's assert

after the botched execution in oklahoma, the death penalty debate. governor rick perryher things. all coming up this morning on "meet the press." >> before we go we want to invite all the moms down on the plaza for a special mother's day celebration next sunday. >> we're really excited for this one. we're going to pick a few of you out in the crowd moms for a soul pampering experience on mother's day. manis, pedies, massages. we got you covered. >> i love this. >> we're going to -- >> that's next sunday morning. that's going to do it for us on >>> good morning. i'm kris sanchez. coming up on today in the bay, all eyes on a horse from california. the bay area's big winner at the kentucky derby. >> also a big bill after a pot party in golden gate park. how much it will cost taxpayers to clean it up. >> and a cool day to get yardwork done. there are showers in the forecast. rob will tell you when. this is today in the bay. >>> and we're looking live from our camera in emeryville over at the city by the bay. a little cloud cover this morning. that was like pulling a blanket

oklahoma. >>> good morning, i'm melissa harris-perry. we begin this morning with a story that's hard to hear but necessary to discuss. now, i'm going to be referring to this clock behind me, okay, don't get too distracted by it. i'll bring it back whenever we need it. the state of oklahoma was scheduled to execute two convicted murderers, clayton lockett and charles warner. tha their crimes were heinous. the inmates challenged the execution claiming that they had the right to know the source of the drugs. a district court judge ruled on march 26th that the secrecy law signed by governor mary fallon in 2011 was unconstitutional. but after the state's supreme court granted a stay of the executions on april 22nd so that it could rule on the issue of secrecy, the governor responded, saying the court had acted, quote, outside of its constitutional authority. at the same time a fellow republican in the state house began working on a bill to impeach the five justices who voted for the stay. the state supreme court soon ruled against the inmates

the constitution, which says - perry was not asked but expressed concern about the eighth amendment or cruel or unusual punishments can be rare. mike christian in oklahoma defended the penalty saying: def deff deffed. >> cruel and unusual. >>> in the 2014 midterm elections women voters will be a key. mark udall in his fight decided to get the attention of women voters. his opponent cory gardner faced this udal attack add out of the gate. >> it comes down to respect for women and our live. congressman cory gardner's history opposing abortion laws is a concern. >> gardner calls the ad misleading and accuses udall of going negative because he had nos record of accomplishments. >> it's unclear what the white house correspondent's dinner accomplishments. the president is good at laughing at himself, roasting the media and burning his political opponents. here is the joke that got the most laughs. >> and i'm feeling sorry, believe it or not, for the speaker of the house as well. these days the house republicans give john boehner a harder time than they give me, which means orang really is the new black. >> that is the power politics. coming up, the wake of a

listen to current governor rick perry defending texas's excuse process this morning on "meet the press." >> the process of the actual execution is very different from oklahomae one drug. but i'm confident that the way that the executions are taken care of in the state of texas are appropriate and humane. >> was this inmum mane? >> i don't know whether it was inhumane or not, but it was botched. >> there's the current governor using the same term that you say min midsing the severity of this. do you think the one-drug method is more humane than the three-drug cocktail? is your objection is that we don't know what this mix of drugs will do to the person and how long it will take for them to die? >> i think so far so good as far as executions go, but hope is not a very good plan. today the spca is doing a better job than what we're doing in some of our states. i think it's stop what we're doing, review what we're doing and get it right. we have absolutely executed innocent people in this country. that's something that is so abhorrent to every bright thinking person in america, it shouldn't happen again. we have plenty of time to get it right. many of these peo