Indiana Capital Chronicle lawsuit seeks access to cost of execution drug

Indiana Capital Chronicle lawsuit seeks access to cost of execution drug

An attorney from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press sued the Indiana Department of Correction yesterday on behalf of the Indiana Capital Chronicle over the agency’s refusal to disclose how much it paid to acquire a new lethal injection drug that recently enabled the state to carry out its first execution in 15 years.  The lawsuit is the second case that Kris Cundiff, the Reporters Committee’s Local Legal Initiative attorney in Indi…