Missouri is going too far on death penalty secrecy: A recent investigation by St. Louis Pubic Radio and the St. Louis Beacon upped the ante by pinpointing a compounding company in Oklahoma as the state’s possible, unlicensed source.

By MARY SANCHEZ The Kansas City Star

Updated: 2014-01-13T02:37:51Z

January 12

By MARY SANCHEZ

The Kansas City Star

 

The executioner was always hooded. Who fired the lethal shot? Who dropped the guillotine blade? Neither was revealed.

The modern equivalent still applies. But Missouri is stretching it to a ridiculous and possibly illegal level.
Missouri is so intent on carrying out state-sanctioned murder that it might wind up slammed for breaking federal law.
Last week, the U.S. attorneys of the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri asked the Food and Drug Administration-Office of Criminal Investigations to look into Missouri’s efforts to shield the drug company that provides lethal-injection doses of pentobarbital. The move was prompted by questions from death-penalty opponents.continue to read here

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| Star file photo A view inside the death chamber at the Missouri Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Mo. The cot in the center of the room is reflected in the protective glass where family members and members of the media act as witnesses during an execution. Missouri uses lethal injections in its executions.

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Who fired the lethal shot? Who dropped the guillotine blade? Neither was revealed.
The modern equivalent still applies. But Missouri is stretching it to a ridiculous and possibly illegal level.
Missouri is so intent on carrying out state-sanctioned murder that it might wind up slammed for breaking federal law.
Last week, the U.S. attorneys of the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri asked the Food and Drug Administration-Office of Criminal Investigations to look into Missouri’s efforts to shield the drug company that provides lethal-injection doses of pentobarbital. The move was prompted by questions from death-penalty opponents.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/12/4747460/missouri-is-going-too-far-on-death.html#storylink=cpy

here: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/12/4747460/missouri-is-going-too-far-on-death.html#storylink=cpy