Missouri appeals court order to reveal execution-drug source

Friday, September 9, 2016

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Casting it as "a question of exceptional importance," Missouri has asked a federal appellate court to block temporarily and ultimately scuttle a ruling that requires the state to reveal one of its most-guarded secrets: who supplies its lethal-injection drug.

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