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The Indiana Supreme Court has ordered the Department of Correction to pay more than $500,000 in legal fees in a fight over one of the state s deepest, darkest secrets.
At stake was whether the state had to reveal the mix of drugs the department plans to use to execute inmates on Indiana s Death Row. And last week, nearly 7 years after the case started, the Indiana Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that ordered IDOC to release the information.
The ruling will hinder Indiana s ability to carry out death penalty sentences and leaves many unresolved issues that will likely end up back in court, Solicitor General Thomas Fisher, who represented the state in the case, said in an email response to questions from IndyStar.