so another court with a different set of evidence, different facts could reach different conclusions. and that s exactly what we just saw happen in ohio. with a more complete record, the court there said midazolam does present a substantial risk of serious harm. and ohio is enjoyed from moving forward with those executions using the drug. megan, last point on this. there has become a sort of increasing national attention to this because they re going try to kill so many people in such short order. they haven t killed anybody in the prison system there in more than 12 years. is there a practical legal difference in trying to kill two people on the same night or eight people in ten days as opposed to just trying to kill one prisoner? is it just surprising for us as lay observer, or is there a legal difference here? there is a difference. and i think you alluded to it before. i mean, the last time that we saw this attempt an attempt to do this was in oklahoma.
and i think you alluded to it before. i mean, the last time that we saw this attempt an attempt to do this was in oklahoma. and there the execution team had extraordinary difficulties. they had trouble setting an iv in clayton lockett s vein. afterwards when they were being investigated, questioned by state officials, the team members spoke about the stress. and they said it was harder on them to get the job done because they knew they had to get it done quickly to move on to the next execution. and so that led to the official recommendation of not scheduling executions closer than seven days apart. it wasn t just for the sake of the team member, but rather for the sake of carrying out the executions properly. so i think that there is a real issue there. it s a practical issue. but it s a real one. megan mccracken from uc rkeley law school death penalty clinic on the precipice of this remarkable decion in arkansas. thank you so much for helping us understand it. appreciate it.
and the pressure of planning to kill two people back to back on that same night, that may very well have contributed to the medical staff getting things so wrong in the first one and the whole thing falling apart. even though oklahoma is largely fine with the death penalty, sobbling in fact so thirsty for executing its prisoners, that they added the death penalty to the state constitution and they would consider bringing back the gas change of name of all things, in between oklahoma which is not squeamish about these things, they agree what they never want to do is two of these things in a row. never try that ever again. quote, executions should not be scheduled within seven calendar days of each other. 330 highway miles between the death row in oklahoma and the death row in arkansas. and oklahoma and arkansas, they share a lot. but it s possible nobody in arkansas read that report out of
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