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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 thanks for let's go us know. place stay in touch with us over the weekend. >> thank you for your interest in this. >> arkansas has made a remarkable decision to try to do a mass execution. they want to kill eight men in ten days. we know that two of those executions are off because of individual cir...

One of the drugs. the drug company is saying they do not consent to it being used in this way. can you give us any of your understanding in terms of the legal fight over the drugs themselves? >> honestly, i don't know much more about it than you do. 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 ...

Considering mr. ward's case whether it's competent to be executed under the 8th amendment. >> how long do you expect this stay to be in effect? >> i expect the arkansas supreme court will consider this matter with the gravity that they do and these issues that they've always done. i suspect that the stay that they've entered here is allow full consideration which would contemplate 40 days worth of briefing at least and probably an oral argument. i think if they meant to do otherwise, they would have set a schedule out in the order they issued this afternoon. >> okay. can i also ask you what yo...

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 mr. ward's case whether it's competent to be executed under the 8th amendment. >> how long do you expect this stay to be in effect? >> i expect the arkansas supreme court will consider this matter with the gravity that they do and these issues that they've always done. i suspect that th...

Coming this week. this is not news. this is not news and this guy is going to -- i think this guy is going to sale through. they're going to blow it up republicans like to call it the reid rule. neal gorsuch will be the next supreme court justice and there's nothing wrong with him so far as we have seen. it's what what he represens. to ask some untraditional questions of this judge. to ask him about the ninth amendment but are there rights that are reserved for people. are you going to do what scalia would tell people he is doing. the constitution is dead, dead,