BATON ROUGE, La. (The Baton Rouge Advocate)- A bid to shield potential suppliers of execution drugs to Louisiana prisons behind a wall of secrecy easily cleared the Louisiana House despite objections from some death penalty opponents.

Drug manufacturers, pharmacists, suppliers and other involved in providing the state lethal drugs for executions would be granted strict confidentiality under House Bill 258, which would exempt contracts and other documents that might identify those companies or people from public scrutiny or disclosure in court proceedings, The Baton Rouge Advocate reported. 

State representatives voted in favor of the measure, 68-31. It now moves to the state Senate.

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