"Miss. inmate sues over execution drug info," is the AP report by Jeff Amy, via the San Francisco Chronicle.
Lawyers for a woman facing the death penalty in Mississippi say the state isn't telling them enough about where it's getting execution drugs and how it plans to use them.
Michelle Byrom and her lawyers sued the Mississippi Department of Corrections on Monday, saying it failed to follow public records laws. They asked Hinds County Chancery Judge William Singletary to find that the department has violated the state public records law by not releasing the expiration date of lethal injection drugs that the state currently has and by saying it was too hard to search for other documents.
"MDOC's evasive and obstructionist response clearly runs afoul of the public records act, and hides from public view important details of the state's infliction of the most serious and irrevocable penalty against one of its citizens," the lawsuit states.
And:
Byrom was sentenced to death in 2000 in Tishomingo County in the killing of her husband, Edward "Eddie" Byrom Sr. Attorney General Jim Hood has asked the state Supreme Court to set a March 27 execution date for Byrom.
The state also wants to set an execution date for Charles Ray, who was sentenced to death in 1994 in Tippah County for the murder and rape of college student Kristy Ray.
Earlier coverage from Mississippi begins at the link. Related posts are in the lethal injection category index.
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