Why One Reporter Is Suing Missouri Over Death-Penalty Secrecy—Again

Reporter Chris McDaniel, formerly of St. Louis Public Radio, took a job with BuzzFeed and moved to New York City earlier this year. But he hasn’t let go of the story—and the related legal battle—that occupied much of his time in Missouri.   In May 2014, while still with SLPR, McDaniel filed a lawsuit, along with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the ACLU of Missouri, alleging that the Missouri Department of Corrections had violated the state’s open-records law by refusing to release information about the source of drugs used in lethal injections.