The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2018 human rights advocates and pharmaceutical companies. On 19 September 2017 a state court in Arkansas ruled that the Department of Corrections must disclose the packaging information of drugs,80 and in Arizona a federal district court judge denied a First Amendment challenge, meaning that the source information of drugs does not have to be revealed.81 In January 2018, Nebraska introduced a bill that exempts the state from making public the identity of lethal drugs manufacturers.82 On 9 January 2018, an act proposing that information about the execution team and lethal injection drugs suppliers should be kept confidential was submitted to the Senate of South Carolina.83 A number of initiatives to abolish the death penalty were introduced in several states during the reporting period. Legislators in Alabama,84 Kentucky,85 Missouri,86 North Carolina,87 Ohio88 and Pennsylvania89 filed bills with the aim of repealing the death penalty. In February 2018, Louisiana introduced a bill abolishing the death penalty for offences committed after 1 August 2018. The proposed bill is currently still subject to call and has not passed through the Senate of the state legislature.90 Some bills to abolish the death penalty in federal states have failed. A bipartisan bill aiming to repeal the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole introduced in Kansas in January 2017, failed to pass into law in May 2018.91 A bill in Florida eliminating provisions concerning the death penalty for capital 80  Arkansas Department of Correction and Wendy Kelley, in her official capacity as Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction v. Steven Shults (Appeal from the Pulaski County Circuit court), Supreme Court of Arkansas, 2 November 2017, <https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/files/pdf/2017.11.02_ArkDOCv.Shults.pdf>. 81  “Mixed Rulings in Arkansas and Arizona Highlight Issue of Lethal-Injection Secrecy”, Death Penalty Information Center, <https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/node/6877>. 82  LB661, Nebraska Legislature,<https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_bill.php?DocumentID=25062> 83  “SC - SB871, Execution team member identity disclosure”, South Carolina Senate, <https://trackbill.com/bill/ south-carolina-senate-general-bill-871-execution-team-member-identity-disclosure/1511581/>. 84  “Bill Status for SB104 (Regular Session 2018): Death penalty repealed”, the Alabama Legislature, <http:// alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.ASPX?BILL=SB104&WIN_TYPE=BillResult>. 85  “SB54:  An act relating to the abolition of the death penalty”, Kentucky Legislature <http://www.lrc.ky.gov/ record/18rs/SB54.htm>. 86  “SB595: Repeals the Death Penalty”, Missouri State Senate, <http://www.senate.mo.gov/18info/BTS_Web/ Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=69471943>. 87  “House Bill 604: Repeal Death Penalty”, North Carolina General Assembly. <https://www2.ncleg.net/BillLookup/2017/H604>. 88  “Senate Bill 94: Abolish the Death Penalty”, the Ohio Legislature, <https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA132-SB-94>. 89  “An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, prohibiting use of the death penalty”, Pennsylvania General Assembly, 8 May 2017, <http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=S&type=B&bn=703>. 90  “SB51: Eliminates the Death Penalty”, Louisiana State Legislature, <http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo. aspx?i=233264&sbi=y>. 91  “HB2167: Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder”, Kansas Legislature, <http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/hb2167/>. 21