1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,440 Speaker 1: And now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news. And Today, Bloomberg lahost 3 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: Jun Grasso and Michael Best discussed the latest developments in 4 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:12,479 Speaker 1: Arkansas's efforts to execute a number of death row inmates 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: after the U. S. Supreme Court allowed the execution of 6 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: the del lee before life ending drugs expire at the 7 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 1: end of April. They speak with Robert Dunham, executive director 8 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: of the Death Penalty Information Center. Robert, let's start with 9 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: what the Supreme Court did last night. What did they 10 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: rule that allowed this execution to proceed. Well, they didn't 11 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: rule on anything of substance, but what they what they 12 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:41,560 Speaker 1: said was that the executions could go forward. UH. They 13 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: declined to review UH the prisoners challenge to UH Arkansas's 14 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 1: lethal injection protocol, which is the three drug challenge. UM. 15 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: They declined to review UH their challenge to the clemency process, 16 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: and they declined through of view UH the challenge to 17 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 1: the execution schedule of all the executions in a in 18 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: a very short period of time, they will still be 19 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:12,320 Speaker 1: conferencing emotion that was filed by all of the prisoners 20 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 1: UH challenging the entire execution process. So we'll have to 21 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,759 Speaker 1: see what the court rules on that. What they essentially 22 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 1: did was, uh, they refused to intervene and they allowed 23 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: the execution to go forward. And that was the five 24 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: to four vote, and it was a long party lines 25 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: tell us what Justice Brier said. His bottom line was 26 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: he thought that the execution schedule was based on the 27 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 1: expiration date of the drug mendaslum uh. And he said, 28 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,119 Speaker 1: I've long been concerned about the arbitrariness of capital punishment. 29 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: It doesn't seem to be much more arbitrary than this. Uh, 30 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: if you are basing when someone gets executed on when 31 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: an execution drug expires. Well, Robert, he was joined I 32 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: think by the three other more liberal just just is 33 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: in sort of dissenting. Doesn't that mean that there are 34 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: going to be four votes to review something here from Arkansas? Well, 35 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: it's hard to say. You would think that there are 36 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: four justices who are interested in that, But when you 37 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: look closely at the stays, there are four who would 38 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: vote to grant to stay. On some of the other issues, 39 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 1: there were three and not four. But when when you 40 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 1: look at it, several of the justices said that they 41 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: would grant to stay in order to grant review. Uh 42 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: and two of them just said that they would grant 43 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: to stay, So we don't know for certain that they 44 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: would have said, let's hear the case. As Robert Dunham, 45 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:44,359 Speaker 1: Executive director for the Death Penalty Information Center, speaking with 46 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 1: Bloomberg Law host Jun Grasso and Michael Best. You can 47 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: listen to Bloomberg Law week days at one pm Wall 48 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: Street Time here on Bloomberg Radio Now. Among the top 49 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 1: legal stories from Bloomberg Law, more problems are servicing for 50 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: Fox News. 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