Multiple media companies seek to overturn Indiana rules that prevent reporters from witnessing executions

Media coalition challenges Indiana ban on media access to executions

A media coalition represented by attorneys from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is challenging an Indiana law that prohibits news reporters from witnessing executions, arguing in a federal lawsuit that the ban violates the First Amendment. The lawsuit, filed Monday, comes as Indiana is just weeks away from executing its second death row inmate since ending a 15-year pause of the death penalty last year.  On behalf of The Associa…

News outlets file lawsuit to open executions to press

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Capital Chronicle and four other news entities filed a lawsuit Monday evening challenging the state’s prohibition against press witnesses for state executions.

Multiple media companies seek to overturn Indiana rules that prevent reporters from witnessing executions

INDIANAPOLIS — Multiple media companies are hoping to overturn the State of Indiana's rules that prevent reporters from witnessing executions. The complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court on Monday, indicates the Associated Press, Gannet, Circle City Broadcasting and Tegna Inc. are challenging "the constitutionality of a provision within the Indiana Code that prohibits (news organizations) from observing executions carried out at th…

AP, others challenge Indiana law barring reporters from witnessing executions

*The video above is from when Indiana inmate Joseph Corcoran was executed in 2024. The Associated Press and four other media companies argue in a federal lawsuit that Indiana's ban on reporters attending state-sanctioned executions violates the public's constitutional right to an independent and unsanitized description of a sensitive and contentious government action. The complaint, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, comes two …

AP and others challenge an Indiana law barring reporters from witnessing executions

The Associated Press and four other media companies argue in a federal lawsuit that Indiana’s ban on reporters attending state-sanctioned executions violates the public’s constitutional right to an independent and unsanitized description of a sensitive and contentious government action.

ICC, other news outlets file lawsuit to open Indiana executions to press

The Indiana Capital Chronicle and four other news entities filed a lawsuit Monday evening challenging the state’s prohibition against press witnesses for state executions.