Nebraska AG sues to stop legislative committee from questioning prisons director

Lincoln Journal Star: Nebraska's prisons director doesn't want to talk publicly about his department's lethal injection protocol — how he developed it or where he got the drugs to carry out the death penalty intended, so far, for two condemned prisoners.

Department of Correctional Services Director Scott Frakes is fighting lawsuits aimed at making him reveal what he knows. And now, he's filed one of his own against a legislative committee trying to force him to answer questions.

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