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Made the argument of doing away with a second amendment but then again, you've spent a lot of time at the "new york times" being as provocative as possible. so would you agree with justice stevens to just get rid of the second amendment? >> i think it's an idea that needs to be put on the table. look, we repealed the 18th amendment quite wisely, the 13th and 14th and 15th amendment of the constitution significantly rewrite the body of the constitution, all of us agree that is essential and right. there's a constitutional mechanism for editing the document itself. look, let me ask you and i thi...

Days after he was found not guilty in a double murder trial, however, hernandez was already serving a life sentence without parole for killing his former friend odin lloyd in 2013. let's talk it over with danny savales. danny, would the hernandez family have a strong case against the prison over this suicide? >> it depends. prison officials can violate the 8th amendment but only when they are deliberately indifferent to the serious medical needs of an inmate n the in the case of suicide that means they had to have some awareness of suicidal ideation. if they did, however, and they additionally...

For joining us. >> thank you. >> let me make sure i have this right. two court rulings tonight. there's a restraining order apparently blocking all the executions by blocking the use of one of the drugs. but before that tonight there was a separate order that blocked the execution of your client, bruce ward. do i have that right in terms of the separate cases here? >> yes, that's correct. the arkansas supreme court granted our emergency stay of execution tonight so that they can ensure they're still considering important constitutional issue in mr. ward's case and that is whether he is compete...

Coupled with that, a sedative the state uses in the lethal injection cocktail was set to expire in two weeks and governor asa hutchinson says that arkansas had to act. . >> there's been a 25-year nightmare for the victim that's had had to deal with this and now it's time for that justice to be carried out. >> only texas has executed eight people in one month. they did that back in the '90s twice and the near number of executions that arkansas was planning on brings a lot of questions. >> the danger of having eight executions in such a short period of time or even seven executions is that if so...

I don't want any of the parties in that action and we're not involved in that, but i think that's right. that's the arguments they've made. i do know we've spent four days in federal court this week putting on a case, showing that midazolam is certainly going to cause a problematic and painful execution and will violate the 8th amendment. >> scott bray determination attorney for bruce ward who was slated for execution on monday. mr. brayden was able to get his client an emergency stay of execution tonight in the arkansas supreme court. mr. brayden, i know this is an incredibly tense time thank...