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Louisiana Lawmakers Say Their State's Execution Drugs Aren't Secret Enough
By motherboard.vice.com- Ben Richmond
Published: 05/15/2014

As the shortage of lethal injection drugs continues to disrupt capital punishment in America, a pattern is emerging: Judges keep ordering states to reveal where the drugs are coming from, while the states keep fighting to keep the information secret.

In response to a federal judge ordering the state to reveal the source of its lethal injection drugs, Louisiana's state government is voting on legislation to keep the information secret. A bill that is designed to keep the source of the drugs from the public, the criminal lawyers, the state courts, and any other investigative bodies has been moved to the full state House of Representatives for a vote, the Times-Picayune reports.

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