By james art 
Columbia – The State’s Law maintains information on lethal drug injection The secret violates constitutional rights over freedom of speech, a civil rights group stated in a case brought on Wednesday.
The challenge in the federal court comes a day after a federal judge decided that the law did not give a prisoner to death of death to know more about drugs to execute it on Friday. The State American Union for Civil Freedoms asked a judge to stop the Prosecutor General from applying the law while the court examined the case.
ACLU claims to have “identification of information” despite the secret law, but cannot give details of what it is because it is illegal to distribute.
SC prisoner has no right to know more about fatal drugs, judicial rules
State Prosecutor General Alan Wilson and Department of Correction Department Brian Sterling, which are stated in the case, have not yet answered.
The law of 2023, which has expanded the existing rule, in order to make a secret almost everything about the drugs used in execution, prevents the public from learning important information, which must be public knowledge, argues in its complaint filed in Colombia.
Legislators have adopted the Pharmaceutical Companies Act that are afraid of discounts to sell their medicines to the state for executions. The law worked as intended, and civil correction officials restored their delivery shortly after it came into force.
The executions resumed in September following a decision of the Supreme Court of the State, which establishes constitutional methods for the death of electricity and dismissal of the squad.
Not knowing where the medicines come from, it makes it possible to make the state adjustment department to buy medicines that are not safe or effective, without public supervision to determine otherwise, according to ACLU.
“In the era of deadly injection, advocacy organizations, journalists, scientists, lawyers, activists and other citizens relied on this information to view the safety, quality, efficacy, legality and morality of drugs and protocols for deadly injection,” the lawsuit read And the minutes, “the court case and the protocols say,” the court case and the minutes say, “the saying.
As early as the end of 1800, when the districts were executed by hanging, the details were “widely available”, for example, where the deliveries to build the gallows came from, the case claims.
When the state began to execute executions with the help of the electric chair in 1912, the public was told how it was built on the chair and the power used to perform convicted prisoners. Even before the first implementation of the state through a deadly injection in 1995, the state released information about the medicines used and the qualification of the executioners, according to the trial.
“This prohibition not only deviates from the history of the state to provide information related to the implementation, but criminalizes the disclosure of this information for any reason,” the lawsuit said.
The prisoners of death facing the execution have requested more information about the drugs used to kill them, arguing that even according to the Law on Secret, correction employees can disclose how and where the medicines are tested, the tests and how they are stored Medicines. Federal judge twice rejected these requests.
South Carolina is one of the dozen states that protects information on drug manufacturers, according to the Information Center for the death penalty. ACLU claims that the Palmo State Law is among the most widely and raw for offenders, who can face up to three years in prison for breaking it.
Judicial cases in other countries are challenging these laws, “with mixed success,” said AClu lawyer Meredith McFil.
ACLU takes a different approach from many of these lawsuits, which often indicate suspected violations of state laws of information, claiming that the law instead violates the first amendment, McFale said.
“Our lawsuit is unique in part, since the scope and severity of the Statute of the Secret of South Carolina make it uniquely problematic and since we are taking a new approach,” McFil says in a statement to The Daily Gazette.