By james art 
Columbia – the American Union for Civil Freedoms in South Carolina has filed a federal case asking the court to remove the patron of a secret surrounding the death penalty of South Carolina.
The new federal case disputes the constitutionality of 2023 This prohibits the publication of information on the purchase of deadly injection drugs, among other key information on the death penalty.
The trial claims that the law provides public access to “huge information”-as current and historical-“drug-related and/or equipment related to execution, including orders; Repair and maintenance after acquisition of medicines or equipment; protocols; risk reduction measures; compliance with state and federal provisions; And expenses. “
“Protectors against death have been able to convince producers of drugs and suppliers that their products should not be used in execution. Instead of participating in the debate, South Carolina silenced these unscrupulous voices. This censorship, based on content and point of view, violates the first repair, “said Meredith McFail, ACLU’s lawyer on South CarolinaS
The legal team also asks the court to issue a preliminary order, which allows ACLU-SC to publish information on the death penalty, which is currently censored by the Statute of the Secret. The named defendants are Prosecutor General Alan Wilson and the director of the SC Correction Department Brian Sterling.
Today’s legal complaint traces the history of executions in South Carolina, from public hanging daylight to concealed proceedings from today’s House of Death. The state is currently proposing the convicted of people the choice to be of electricity poisoned by a deadly injection or fired through the chest by a launch squad. Regardless of the method, the state is already executing people in the evening in a small camera at the Shiroka Reka Correctional Institution in Colombia.
The key elements of all three methods of execution are already enclosed in secrecy under 2023. Senate Bill 120included in section 24-3-580 with Code of SC.
South Carolina’s legislators began to consider the status of the death penalty after major pharmaceutical companies began to refuse to sell drugs to US countries for the purpose of deadly injection. With the eliminated source of these drugs, South Carolina resorts to desperate measures. In 2010, it was revealed that South Carolina ordered sodium thiopental from a company operating from a non -medical facility in England.
Hot to resume the murder of the southern Carolini of Death, Governor Henry McMaster and others have increased the Senate bill 120 as a way to hide the identity of constituent pharmacies or other companies wishing to deliver drugs and equipment to the state of the state. In his address to the state in 2023, McMaster stressed that the purpose of the secret of the secret was to protect the identity of drug producers “from death activists.” Supporters of the bill added a penalty to the statute to deter the persons reporting. The legislators have adopted the bill, despite evidence that such laws in other countries have contributed to the executed executions and failures of public supervision.
Today’s lawsuit claims that South Carolina’s law is cooling political speech. Instead of persuading public and pharmaceutical companies that it is moral to buy poison in order to perform southern Carolini, instead leading politicians seek to suppress the speech they find uncomfortable. To quote from today’s complaint:
“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. In this way, she silenced the scientists, doctors, journalists, former corrective staff, lawyers and citizens who have considered the safety, efficiency, morality and legality of using a deadly injection by South Carolina.
“This approach is disgusting to the first amendment. The Statute of Security serves as an inadmissible purpose – to remain silent, by discrimination of the person’s speech on the basis of his or her point of view and content and restricting society’s right to access information. The first repair does not allow any of this. “
In a separate case, ACLU-SC vs SterlingSouth Carolina’s ACLu provokes another element of South Carolina’s penalty punishment: the invention of all the prohibitions of the Ministry of Correction in interviews with media with prisoners. ACLU-SC submitted a petition to re-examine on December 27, emphasizing the case of Marion Bauman Jr., whom the state is to implement on January 31.