Reporter sues over Missouri's picks of execution witnesses

Thursday, September 1, 2016

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A reporter whose stories have been critical of Missouri's death penalty procedures sued the state's prisons chief Wednesday in federal court, accusing him of wrongly excluding him from being an execution witness.

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