Deborah Denno quoted in Mother Jones about how The Guardian, AP, and three local newspapers are wading into the death penalty fray with a lawsuit challenging the secrecy surrounding lethal injections in Missouri—one of more than a dozen states that have begun hiding information about their execution drugs.
Since the law was changed, Missouri has put six prisoners to death using what the suit calls “a secret drug formulation obtained from secret sources.” Deborah Denno, an expert in executions at Fordham University law school, told theGuardian that the secrecy seems designed to cover up shortcomings in the system. “If states were doing things properly they wouldn’t have a problem releasing information,” she said. “They are imposing a veil of secrecy to hide incompetence.”
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