Civil rights group sues Missouri for concealing suppliers of execution drugs

By Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – The American Civil Liberties Union sued Missouri prison officials on Wednesday seeking to force the state to divulge the compounding pharmacies that supply its lethal execution drugs and identities of other members of its death row execution team. The lawsuit came a day after the state said it would start classifying those pharmacies among the various personnel and entities involved in administering the death penalty in Missouri and thus shielded from public disclosure of their identities. …