This State Is Spending More on Lethal Injections. A Law Tries to Keep the Details Secret.

Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica 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. 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.