11/29/2015: The Last Prisoner, The Execution of Joseph Wood, Taking on the Eiger
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Alan Gross tells correspondent Scott Pelley about his five years as a prisoner in Cuba and his activities that led up to his arrest in his first interview. Correspondent Bill Whitaker examines the execution of Joseph Wood, who died by lethal injection after nearly two hours, and the drugs being used in the procedure. And correspondent Anderson Cooper visits the Eiger of the Swiss Alps to witness a new breed of daredevil, plunging down mountains instead of climbing them.
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| 0:32.6 | They threatened to hang me. |
| 0:34.9 | They threatened to pull out my fingernails. They said I'd never see the light of day. |
| 0:41.3 | It has been nearly a year since Alan Gross became the linchpin for the diplomatic breakthrough with Cuba. |
| 0:49.3 | But why was he a prisoner there? And what were those years like? |
| 0:53.3 | I wasn't a spy. |
| 0:55.0 | This is the first interview with the last prisoner from the Cold War. |
| 1:00.0 | This is absolutely ridiculous. |
| 1:02.0 | Cuba, you want to put your finger in the U.S. government's eye? |
| 1:05.0 | Go ahead, but leave me out of it. |
| 1:09.0 | Five years ago, when Arizona needed drugs to execute an inmate named Jeffrey Landrigan, |
| 1:14.4 | it purchased them illegally from a supplier operating out of this driving school in London. |
| 1:20.3 | It's my understanding that if there was a paperwork issue, the proper forms weren't filled out. |
| 1:24.9 | Was it used in the execution of Mr. Landrigan? |
| 1:28.9 | Yes. This office, the execution of Mr. Landrigan? Yes. |
| 1:29.8 | This office, the state of Arizona, knew or should have known that it was illegal to import these drugs. |
| 1:36.8 | Bill, I was not the Attorney General in that happened, and I don't want to use that as an excuse. |
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