ST. LOUIS (AP) – Two Mississippi death-row inmates suing for the identity of Missouri’s supplier of lethal injection drugs are studying their next options after their latest setback in federal court. A three-judge panel with the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in October that Missouri can keep its pentobarbital provider secret.…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri federal appellate court that ordered Missouri to reveal its supplier of lethal injection drugs has reversed its decision, ruling that the provider can be remain secret. A three-judge panel with the 8th U.S. Circuit Court overturned its Sept. 2 ruling that the state must disclose its pentobarbital supplier…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – An appellate panel that ordered Missouri to reveal its supplier of lethal injection drugs is giving the state another chance to make its case to shield that information. In a federal lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s three-drug execution protocol, two death-row inmates have subpoenaed Missouri for details about the using the single sedative,…
The suit claims the state violates state and federal law by using an illegal prescription to obtain pentobarbital from a compounding pharmacy