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| Missouri appeals court order to reveal execution-drug source |
| By semissourian.com- Jim Suhr |
| Published: 09/09/2016 |
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Casting it as "a question of exceptional importance," Missouri has asked a federal appellate court to block temporarily and ultimately scuttle a ruling that requires the state to reveal one of its most-guarded secrets: who supplies its lethal-injection drug. Wednesday's appeals urged the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to suspend last week's ruling by a panel of three of its judges, who unanimously rejected Missouri's claim disclosing how it gets pentobarbital could crimp its ability to obtain such chemicals for future executions. Unless the 8th Circuit intervenes, Missouri must identify any sources by Sept. 16 to two Mississippi death-row inmates who have subpoenaed the state for details about pentobarbital, which is a sedative. Read More. |
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