Speaker 1: And now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief,
Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news. And Today, Bloomberg lahost
Speaker 1: Jun Grasso and Michael Best discussed the latest developments in
Speaker 1: Arkansas's efforts to execute a number of death row inmates
Speaker 1: after the U. S. Supreme Court allowed the execution of
Speaker 1: the del lee before life ending drugs expire at the
Speaker 1: end of April. They speak with Robert Dunham, executive director
Speaker 1: of the Death Penalty Information Center. Robert, let's start with
Speaker 1: what the Supreme Court did last night. What did they
Speaker 1: rule that allowed this execution to proceed. Well, they didn't
Speaker 1: rule on anything of substance, but what they what they
Speaker 1: said was that the executions could go forward. UH. They
Speaker 1: declined to review UH the prisoners challenge to UH Arkansas's
Speaker 1: lethal injection protocol, which is the three drug challenge. UM.
Speaker 1: They declined to review UH their challenge to the clemency process,
Speaker 1: and they declined through of view UH the challenge to
Speaker 1: the execution schedule of all the executions in a in
Speaker 1: a very short period of time, they will still be
Speaker 1: conferencing emotion that was filed by all of the prisoners
Speaker 1: UH challenging the entire execution process. So we'll have to
Speaker 1: see what the court rules on that. What they essentially
Speaker 1: did was, uh, they refused to intervene and they allowed
Speaker 1: the execution to go forward. And that was the five
Speaker 1: to four vote, and it was a long party lines
Speaker 1: tell us what Justice Brier said. His bottom line was
Speaker 1: he thought that the execution schedule was based on the
Speaker 1: expiration date of the drug mendaslum uh. And he said,
Speaker 1: I've long been concerned about the arbitrariness of capital punishment.
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem to be much more arbitrary than this. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you are basing when someone gets executed on when
Speaker 1: an execution drug expires. Well, Robert, he was joined I
Speaker 1: think by the three other more liberal just just is
Speaker 1: in sort of dissenting. Doesn't that mean that there are
Speaker 1: going to be four votes to review something here from Arkansas? Well,
Speaker 1: it's hard to say. You would think that there are
Speaker 1: four justices who are interested in that, But when you
Speaker 1: look closely at the stays, there are four who would
Speaker 1: vote to grant to stay. On some of the other issues,
Speaker 1: there were three and not four. But when when you
Speaker 1: look at it, several of the justices said that they
Speaker 1: would grant to stay in order to grant review. Uh
Speaker 1: and two of them just said that they would grant
Speaker 1: to stay, So we don't know for certain that they
Speaker 1: would have said, let's hear the case. As Robert Dunham,
Speaker 1: Executive director for the Death Penalty Information Center, speaking with
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