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Judge Hears Arguments Over Missouri Execution Secrecy
By kbia.org- Chris McDaniel
Published: 06/05/2014

In a court hearing Wednesday, the Missouri attorney general's office defended the secrecy that just last week Attorney General Chris Koster expressed concerns over.

Inmate John Winfield is scheduled to be executed on June 18 for murdering two people in St. Louis County in 1996. His lawyer, Joe Luby, argued in the Cole County 19th Judicial Circuit Court that the Missouri Department of Corrections is violating the sunshine law by keeping secret the identity of the supplier of the execution drug.

"It's a matter of simple dignity. Someone being injected with something should know what's in it," his attorney Joe Luby said.

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