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Court requires state to provide lethal injection documents
By news4jax.com- Dara Kim
Published: 10/28/2016

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Rejecting arguments that the records must be kept secret, a federal magistrate has ordered the Florida Department of Corrections to give a decade's worth of documents about drugs used in the state's lethal-injection procedure to lawyers representing seven Arizona Death Row inmates.

Lawyers for the Arizona inmates and the First Amendment Coalition of Arizona in June filed a subpoena seeking years of records related to Florida's three-drug lethal injection protocol, including the types of drugs purchased, the strengths and amounts of the drugs, the expiration dates of the drugs and the names of suppliers.

The lawyers sought and received similar information from other states, including Georgia, Missouri and Texas, according to court records.

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