Like Missouri, Secrecy Surrounds Execution Drugs in Most States
Like Missouri, secrecy surrounds execution drugs in most states
Likewise, secrecy laws or policies shield the source of execution drugs in several states, including Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas. Many protocols were adopted in the past year …
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Oklahoma among states with secrecy surrounding execution drugs
Oklahoma does not have all of the lethal drugs necessary to carry out Lockett's execution set for this week, the state attorney general said Monday, March 17, 2014, and the prisons agency says a quirk in the law prevents the state from switching to …
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Scant evidence of threats to execution drugmakers
DALLAS – Texas prison officials have offered scant evidence to support their claim that pharmacies that supply the state with execution drugs would be in danger of violence if their identities were made public. If those officials are investigating the …
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Most death penalty states don't disclose companies who provide death chamber …
Last week, an Oklahoma judge voided the state's execution law, agreeing with two inmates who claimed a “veil of secrecy” that prevents them from obtaining information about lethal injection drugs violated their constitutional rights. And on Wednesday …
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