Thursday, May 15, 2014

News Organizations Sue Missouri Department Of Corrections Over Drug Executions May 15, 2014



Five journalism organizations, including The Kansas City Star and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, sued the Missouri Department of Corrections Thursday, seeking information on the drugs the state uses in lethal injection executions.
The suit, filed in Cole County Circuit Court in Jefferson City, says that the department last October stopped providing the public with information about the drugs it uses in lethal injections.
“Without this information, the public cannot provide meaningful oversight of the executions that the State of Missouri conducts in its name,” the complaint says.
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