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Bill that would hide sources of lethal-injection drugs now heads to Senate floor
By thelensnola.org- Della Hasselle
Published: 05/28/2014

A Senate committee approved a bill Tuesday that would conceal information about lethal injection drugs and allow prison officials to buy them from unlicensed, out-of-state suppliers.

Sponsored by state Rep. Joseph P. Lopinto III, R-Metairie, the bill would keep confidential the name, address and other identifiers “of any person or entity that manufactures, compounds, prescribes, dispenses, supplies or administers” execution drugs.

The information would not only be shielded from Louisiana’s Public Records law, but would be inadmissible as evidence or discovery in any kind of court “or before any tribunal, board agency or person.”

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