At least 16 states have passed death penalty secrecy laws since 2010, the group says, many of them focused on keeping details obscured about where lethal injection drugs are obtained.
Indiana law shrouding executions in secrecy, prompting new pushes for public oversight
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That they also appear to create a significantly heightened risk that innocent people will be sentenced to death should be an important additional consideration in deciding whether this outlier practice should be permitted to continue or should be abandoned,” Robert Dunham, the center’s executive director, said in the analysis.
Florida's proposal for non-unanimous death sentences is major outlier: Legal experts
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