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Open government suffered a defeat Monday when the Texas Senate approved a bill that would keep secret the source of the drug the state uses in lethal injections.
Should it become law, Senate Bill 1697, proposed by Republican state Sen. Joan Huffman of Houston, would culminate a push by state officials to hide the identities of drug suppliers from the public. Huffman, a former prosecutor and state judge, says SB 1697 is needed to protect suppliers of the state’s execution drug from harassment and threats
Such frequently repeated fears are grounded more in protecting suppliers from controversy than threats while ensuring the state’s ability to carry out the death penalty as it struggles to keep its supply of pentobarbital, the sedative it uses in lethal injections, replenished. There’s no compelling reason why the state should conceal information about its supply of pentobarbital or ignore death row inmates’ constitutional protections.
Keep names of execution drug providers public www.mystatesman.com
I have never seen anything so ignorant in my life. Fire Huffman.
Should it become law, Senate Bill 1697, proposed by Republican state Sen. Joan Huffman of Houston, would culminate a push by state officials to hide the identities of drug suppliers from the public. Huffman, a former prosecutor and state judge, says SB 1697 is needed to protect suppliers of the state’s execution drug from harassment and threats
Such frequently repeated fears are grounded more in protecting suppliers from controversy than threats while ensuring the state’s ability to carry out the death penalty as it struggles to keep its supply of pentobarbital, the sedative it uses in lethal injections, replenished. There’s no compelling reason why the state should conceal information about its supply of pentobarbital or ignore death row inmates’ constitutional protections.
Keep names of execution drug providers public www.mystatesman.com
I have never seen anything so ignorant in my life. Fire Huffman.