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Lawyer says AL can legally name execution drug suppliers, but state officials refuse
By greenfieldreporter.com- Kim Chandler
Published: 03/24/2014

MONTGOMERY, Alabama — A lawyer for a death-row inmate argued Friday that Alabama is free to disclose the suppliers of its lethal-injection drugs, and is wrong to cite her client's case as a reason not to do so.

Suhana Han, who leads the defense team for death-row inmate Thomas Arthur, said in a statement that state corrections officials had no basis to cite a confidentiality order in the case as a reason for denying separate public-records requests seeking information on the suppliers filed by The Associated Press and other news media outlets.

"Such information about the suppliers belongs to the state of Alabama, and the state is free to disclose that information as it sees fit," Han said.

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