Court orders release of execution drug labels

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(AP) – Arkansas’ highest court has ruled state prison
officials must identify the manufacturer of one of the lethal injection drugs they plan to use to put a convicted murderer to death next week.The state Supreme Court on Thursday upheld part of a lower court’s ruling
ordering the Department of Correction to release the labels for its supply of midazolam, one of three drugs Arkansas uses in its lethal injection process. The court said the labels must be released, but said a Pulaski County judge must determine what identifying information other than the manufacturer can be withheld.

A Pulaski County judge in September ordered the state to release the labels without any information withheld, but justices halted that ordered while the state appealed. Arkansas law keeps the supplier of its execution drugs secret.

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