LINCOLN — The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday that state officials must release documents revealing where Nebraska obtained the lethal injection drugs used to execute Carey Dean Moore in 2018.

The ruling marked a victory for the Omaha World-Herald, the Lincoln Journal Star and the ACLU of Nebraska, which had sued the state Department of Correctional Services for denying their separate public records requests. The state argued that the records should be confidential because they could lead to the identification of members of the execution team. Those identities are protected in state law.

But the high court rejected the state's arguments, saying that they "contradict the text of Nebraska’s public records statutes and are adverse to this court’s public records precedent." It ordered the department to redact confidential portions of the documents, such as the names of execution team members, and release the rest.

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