now, i think you were asked the question with a bit of an correcting premise by my colleagues in the minority about fiona hill, referring to a drug deal between you and mr. mulvaney. it was ambassador bolton who made the comment that he didn t want to be part of any drug deal that ambassador sondland and mulvaney were cooking up. no one thinks they re talking about a literal drug deal here or a drug cocktail. the import of the ambassador s comments is quite clear, he believed this quid pro quo, as you described it, of investigations to get the not something he wantedme to be a part of. what i wanted to ask you about is, he makes reference in that drug dealef to a drug deal cook up by you and mulvaney.
era, not even the 50s like the president. capital punishment america is racist by the disproportionate share of black people on whom it is imposed. 34% of inmates put to death since 1976. on the drug protocol, which has been called cruel and unusual by many people, barr said he would use the three-drug procedure with a simple drug. figuri phenobarbit phenobarbitol, that is widely available. the drug cocktail had fallen out of favor because of botched executions that prompted a slew lawsuits. what do you think he s here to do? he s here to wipe off the president and put forth these policies. as i said in the last segment, the white supremacy is the point of the trump administration and barr is just another one of the executioners, pun very much
to seek the death penalty here. we have seen him increase the use of the death penalty or the authorization to seek it. no one has been execute maryld federal system since 2003. it s not clear they could carry it considering the difficulty of obtaining the drug cocktail they use. whether it s justified or not and people disagree over that, it s not a deterrent to these crimes happening. it s not going to deter someone recruited or self-recruited into this kind of hatred and choosing to turn violent. if we truly want to solve this problem, we ll have to look at ways of counter this ideology. just trying to expand the use of the death penalty has never been shown to be effective deterrent. thank you very much.
on both sides of the death penalty issue. the condemned prisoner don davis sentenced in 1992 for the murder of jane daniel. she was shot and killed inside her arkansas home. despite this setback, the state of arkansas vows to carrier his execution and the lethal injection of six other inmates before the end of the month. let s bring in our legal panel. a former prosecutor and defense attorney, and a criminal defense attorney. the reasoning for this holdup has nothing to do with the lethal injection drugs that are currently in question, right? it is partly the reason. the plaintiffs in this case, the inmate made a sufficient showing that they would be at risk for severe pain if this one particular drug that is part of the three drug cocktail that administered in another state has caused cruel and unusual
supreme court to reverse the decision and remove the circuit judge from case. that would pave the way for the historic execution pace that was initially set to kill eight men in just ten days. here to tell us more about that, chief legal correspondent ari melber. what is the burden for removing here that judge that request here that s going forward? the burden is high and you typically don t see judges remove other judges unless there is an apparent conflict or some type of real misconduct. this whole dispute here is about how we do capital punishment in this country. about 31 states use this three drug cocktail. the supreme court has upheld it as constitutional but the drug companies have said they don t want to be in this game. that these drugs that are used in each step weren t designed for killing. and thus, there s this deadline in the case of what s availabled mecally to be used before its expiration date which is why