Arkansas ordered to release more info on execution drug
— Arkansas’ highest court ordered the state Thursday to identify the manufacturer of one of the lethal injection drugs it plans to use to put an inmate to death next week, ruling the information isn’t protected by the state’s execution drug secrecy law. Justices upheld part of a lower court’s ruling that the state must release the drug labels and package labels for its supply of midazolam, one of three drugs it uses for lethal injections. State officials have said that identifying the manufacturer would jeopardize the state’s efforts to obtain execution drugs, since pharmaceutical companies have said they don’t want their products to be used to put inmates to death. John Williams, Greene’s attorney, told Judge Jodi Dennis that she had an obligation to void an Arkansas law that lets state Department of Correction Director Wendy Kelley determine an inmate’s mental competency — particularly after the nation’s highest court said inmates deserve to have an neutral person look at their mental health.
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