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Missouri Has Difficulty Retaining Provider for Execution Drugs

Loaded on Nov. 7, 2017 by David Reutter published in Prison Legal News November, 2017, page 50
Filed under: Medical, Eighth Amendment, Civil Procedure, Public Records, Public Records Act. Location: Missouri.

by David M. Reutter

The Missouri Department of Corrections ran afoul of the state’s public records laws when it tried to withhold its source of propofol, a lethal injection drug, a state court judge ruled. That’s when the drug’s supplier found out how it was being used – and demanded ...

 

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