Oklahoma top court rules death row inmates have no right to know source of lethal injection drugs

Oklahoma top court rules death row inmates have no right to know source of lethal injection drugs
[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Oklahoma [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Wednesday that two inmates' constitutional rights were not violated by keeping sources of lethal injection drugs secret. The 5-4 opinion affirmed [AP report] the district court's declaratory judgment that denied the prisoners relief and reversed the declaratory judgment that found confidentiality of the source of drug cocktails unconstitutional. The secrecy provision in Title 22 §1015(B) of the Oklahoma statutes [text] states, "The identity of all persons who participate in... [more].