Entries tagged with “Michael Scudder”

Jun 22, 2026

States Continue to Push for Execution Secrecy Amid Legal Challenges

For the past 15 years, as state after state has passed exe­cu­tion secre­cy laws, the pub­lic has faced more ques­tions than answers about how elect­ed offi­cials use their tax­pay­er dol­lars for the most seri­ous pun­ish­ment. Every active death penal­ty state now has a law shield­ing key infor­ma­tion about exe­cu­tions, such as the source of lethal injec­tion drugs, the iden­ti­ties of exe­cu­tion team mem­bers, and whether those indi­vid­u­als have ade­quate train­ing. In 2026, as…