NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A Tennessee appeals court is considering
whether 10 death row inmates have the right to know about the drugs that
will be used in their executions and whether their lawyers can get the
names of the people who will kill them.

The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/1lPRSe6 ) reports that the state Court
of Appeals heard oral arguments this week in the lawsuit brought by the
inmates. They sued after the legislature passed a law that keeps details
about lethal injection secret.

Lawyers for the state argued that a Nashville judge overstepped her
authority when she ordered officials to turn over the names of the
execution team to the attorneys for the condemned prisoners. The lower
court ruled the names must be released but said neither the public nor the
inmates could have them.