Saturday, March 29, 2014

Oklahoma judge voids execution drug secrecy law

[JURIST] The Oklahoma County District Court [official website] ruled Wednesday that the state’s law preventing death row inmates from obtaining information about the drugs used in lethal injections violates the Oklahoma constitution. Judge Patricia Parrish found [AP report] that the Oklahoma law, which keeps the identities of lethal-injection drugs suppliers secret and prevents the information from being revealed in court, is a violation of an inmate's due process right. Death row inmates Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner challenged the Oklahoma...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/03/oklahoma-judge-voids-execution-drug-secrecy-law.php

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