Deborah Denno was quoted in an Intercept article about lethal injection as a form of capital punishment.
Botched executions are as old as the death penalty itself. But the recent debacles in Ohio and Alabama raise a new set of concerns. “This process has gotten a lot riskier and even more irresponsible than it ever was,” says Fordham law professor Deborah Denno, the foremost expert on lethal injection. In its early days in Texas, which saw a series of executions gone awry, “the mantra at the time was that this was going to get better – that accidents happen.” But instead, it’s gotten worse. Until the failed execution of Broom in 2009, Denno said, “We had never seen executions (by lethal injection) that weren’t completed.”
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