This State Is Spending More on Lethal Injections. A Law Tries to Keep the Details Secret. by Max Blau September 8, 2026, 5:00 am (+++)

This State Is Spending More on Lethal Injections. A Law Tries to Keep the Details Secret. As Georgia plans for its first execution in two years, a trove of records provides us with new information — and raises new questions — about the state’s lethal injection process. by Max Blau September 8, 2026, 5:00 am Before I joined ProPublica in 2021, I had spent a year writing about a Georgia prison physician named Carlo Musso, one of the rare doctors who’d openly talked about his role in lethal injections. After he stepped away from that work, I wanted to know who replaced him, so I filed open records requests for documents that would shed light on that. Max Blau, ProPublica Reporter The role Musso held is so controversial that more than a dozen states have made it illegal to disclose the names of those involved with lethal injections. Georgia is among them. The state has gone to great lengths to hide the details around how it carries out lethal injections. Georgia wouldn’t release records I had requested, claiming that its secrecy law is needed to prevent those helping with its executions from getting harassed by opponents of the death penalty. I ended up suing the state. A few years later, a panel of three judges sided with me, and the state released some of the documents. (The state’s Corrections Department and attorney general’s office declined to comment on this story.) https://law.justia.com/cases/georgia/court-of-appeals/2022/a22a0326.html What I received reveals new details — and revives old questions — about Georgia’s lethal injection process. For sheriffs, healthcare for inmates can be a burden. For one doctor, it has been the opportunity of a lifetime. Local officials face a major challenge: asking for-profit medical providers to provide jail healthcare on the lowest possible budget By Max Blau -December 12, 2019 https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/for-sheriffs-healthcare-for-inmates-can-be-a-burden-for-one-doctor-it-has-been-the-opportunity-of-a-lifetime/