Fordham Law School Professor Deborah Denno is featured in The Penn Gazette about her career as a death penalty scholar.
Denno has been scrutinizing capital punishment since 1991, when, as a law clerk, she was one of the first voices to challenge electrocution’s successor, lethal injection, on the grounds that it, too, violates the Eighth Amendment. That went against the prevailing wisdom that lethal injection was a kinder and gentler means of administering the ultimate justice. But after a quartet of highly publicized botched lethal injections last year in Ohio, Oklahoma, and Arizona (in one of which the condemned took nearly two hours to die), Denno has found herself in the death-penalty spotlight.
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