Execution witnesses used to watch inmates walk into the chamber and be strapped down. Now, the curtain will be closed when the witnesses enter the chamber and won't be opened until the inmate's IV lines are placed. A day later, Morva fatally shot Eric Sutphin, a sheriff's deputy searching for Morva near Virginia Tech's Blacksburg campus. In Ohio, witnesses watch the insertion of the IV lines via closed circuit TV. In 2012, The Associated Press and other news organizations successfully sued Idaho to force the state to let witnesses watch the insertion of the IV lines.

Source: Fox News July 06, 2017 07:18 UTC