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| Corrections Department recommends striking provision hiding identities of lethal injection suppliers |
| By starherald.com- Joe Duggan |
| Published: 01/26/2017 |
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LINCOLN — Nebraska prison officials have recommended striking a controversial change to the state’s lethal injection procedure that would hide the identities of death drug suppliers. Gov. Pete Ricketts, who wants to return Nebraska’s death penalty to viability, would have to sign off on the recommendation before the confidentiality provision is removed. His policy research staff is reviewing the proposed changes. The governor’s spokesman said Wednesday he had not seen the recommendation and could not immediately respond to questions about it. Several states that have carried out executions in the last year have shielded the identities of drug makers and suppliers because doing so makes it easier for executioners to obtain the drugs. Death penalty supporters say revealing the identities of such suppliers subjects them to public pressure from opponents of capital punishment. Read More. |
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