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Judge Orders Missouri DOC to Disclose Names of Pharmacies that Supply Execution Drugs; Appellate Court Reverses

Loaded on March 9, 2017 by Lonnie Burton published in Prison Legal News March, 2017, page 24
Filed under: Medication, Death Penalty. Location: Missouri.

On March 21, 2016, a circuit court judge in Cole County, Missouri ruled in favor of several news media agencies and ordered the state’s Department of Corrections (DOC) to release the identities of the pharmacies that supply lethal drugs used to execute prisoners. The court rejected the DOC’s argument that ...

 

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