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None of your business

Attorney General Dustin McDaniel filed Friday, on behalf of the Correction Department, a motion to dismiss the ACLU lawsuit seeking to end the secrecy that surrounds a large portion of the state's execution process. It's a policy issue (and we all know the director of the Correction Department answers to no one), not a constituitional issue, McDaniel says. I'm a plaintiff in this lawsuit, along with the Times and the NW Ark. chapter of the Social of Professional Journalists.

Here's the state's brief.

Posted by Max Brantley on August 19, 2007 12:51 PM | Permalink

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I can't think of anything the state does that should be less shrouded in secrecy than the execution process. If we're going to execute people, we damned well better not be keeping secrets about the process. How can the Attorney General not agree with that.

Posted by: Spirit | August 19, 2007 08:22 PM

Hear Hear Spirit! Well said......what is more important than a state sanctioned killing?

Posted by: Deathbyinches | August 20, 2007 01:57 AM

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