Wednesday, January 14, 2015

News groups back Larry Flynt’s push for execution info on compounding pharmacies

 January 14 at 5:50 PM
ST. LOUIS — A coalition of 14 news organizations wants a federal appeals court to allow porn publisher Larry Flynt to join a lawsuit seeking to force Missouri to disclose more details of its execution methods.
A lawyer for the news groups, which include The New York Times, The Washington Post and Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, argued Wednesday before a three-judge federal panel in St. Louis that the Hustler magazine publisher should be allowed to join the pending lawsuit on First Amendment grounds. more

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