death penalty says this shows you the flagrant discrepancies in the legal system here in the u.s. but time after time, whether it was the u.s. georgia supreme court, whether it was the u.s. supreme court, every one of those turned down. and now it appears her very last hope, which rested with the u.s. supreme court which they went to not once, but twice to tonight, that appears to have failed as well. ironically, she has been to this threshold, i guess you could say twice before. in february, they halted her execution due to bad weather. then about a month later, they halted it again because they looked at the chemicals to be used and felt maybe they were cloudy and possibly wo wouldn t carry out the lethal execution. and now we re to the threshold again. some have said that is beyond what is considered fair and also humane in this case. but it appears they re going to
federal appeals courts. and their numbered circuits. this weekend at the 9th circuit court, that court one level below the supreme court, day blocked an execution due to take place the day after tomorrow in arizona. they said if the state of arizona won t disclose the manufacturers of the drugs it s planning to use in this lethal injection and if it won t disclose the medical training of the people they re going it use for the execution team, the 9th circuit says that execution cannot go forward. it s an interesting dilemma for arizona right now on a very short-term basis because they ve got an execution warrant for this guy for wednesday. and the state now has a choice to make. if the state of arizona decides to disclose that information about the drugs and about the execution team, they will be allowed to kill this prisoner on wednesday. what the court gave them is just a temporary injunction and the court says, this temporary injunction blocking the execution, it will expire if the
long public history. we ve always done it in a way that people were allowed to know what was happening, what means were being used. now states have tried to stop that. and that has just led to a really big deal federal court ruling. in terms of the federal court system, there s the supreme court at the top, obviously, right? one level below that are the federal appeals courts. and their numbered circuits. this weekend at the 9th circuit court, that court one level below the supreme court, day blocked an execution due to take place the day after tomorrow in arizona. they said if the state of arizona won t disclose the manufacturers of the drugs it s planning to use in this lethal injection and if it won t disclose the med al training of the people they re going it use for the execution team, the 9th circuit says that execution cannot go forward. it s an interesting dilemma for arizona right now on a very short-term basis because they ve got an execution warrant for this guy for wednesda