AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas Supreme Court is granting the state's request to review a case dealing with the disclosure of an execution drug supplier.

• A lower court denied the state's request to review the ruling in June
• Arguments in the case are set for January

The court approved the state's appeal Friday asking that it review a lower court's order that the state's prison agency must identify its execution drug supplier.

In June, the court denied the state's request to review the ruling. The case stems from a lawsuit seeking to identify the supplier Texas used in two 2014 executions.

A measure was signed into law the next year allowing the state to keep future supplier records secret. Arguments in the case are set for January.

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