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