JACKSON -- Attorney General Jim Hood is asking a Hinds County judge to keep secret the identity of Mississippi's execution drug supplier while the state appeals an order to release the name.
Hinds County Chancery Judge Denise Owens ruled earlier this month that the state's public records law requires officials to release the information, sought by death-penalty opponents at the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center.
In papers filed last week, Hood's office said the Mississippi Departme
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