Arkansas judge orders state to disclose source of execution drugs

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Arkansas was ordered on Monday to release information about its supplier of lethal injection drugs to attorneys for death row inmates who are challenging the state’s execution secrecy law.

Pulaski County circuit court judge Wendell Griffen said the state must “identify or otherwise object to disclosure” of the manufacturers, distributor, seller or supplier of Arkansas’ three lethal injections drugs by 21 October. That includes turning over package inserts, shipping labels, laboratory test results and other information to the court and the inmates’ attorneys.

The state can submit a request for a protective order for the drug manufacturer and supplier information, Griffen said.

It will be up to the state attorney general to decide what’s included in that request. The office could ask Griffen to uphold the state’s secrecy law as it’s written, which requires information about the source of the drugs to be kept under wraps. It could also ask that if the source is shared with the inmates’ attorneys, they be barred from releasing it to anyone else.

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Associated Press in Little Rock, Arkansas
Monday 12 October 2015 21.01 BST


Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/12/arkansas-disclose-lethal-injection-death-penalty

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LBN thread from last week (same judge): Arkansas judge halts scheduled executions of eight inmates

[erronis]

1. Do we think Arkansas will speed up the process on any waiting on death row?

They'll stall and talk real slow to delay this disclosure. And I didn't see anything that put a stay on executions until compliance with the ruling.

[Art_from_Ark]

3. The Republicans are chomping at the bit to get executions going again

They couldn't satisfy their bloodlust during the 8-year moratorium when Mike Beebe was governor.

[safeinOhio]

2. The local veterinarian

doesn't want his name released.