US Supreme Court allows Arizona to execute Joseph Wood.
The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for Arizona to execute a murderer who had sought information about the lethal drugs to be used to kill him.
Joseph Wood's execution is scheduled for 23 July.
He argued the state's refusal to name the drugs' maker violated his rights. On Saturday an appeals court agreed, halting the execution.
The case comes as states are having trouble obtaining lethal injection drugs amid a European export ban.
Wood was convicted of the 1989 murders of his estranged girlfriend Debra Dietz and her father Eugene Dietz.
In communications with his lawyers this year, Arizona officials said they would use a two-drug combination of midazolam and hydromorphone to put him to death.
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