Deborah Denno comments to the The Crime Report on Ronnie Lee Gardner, the first person put to death by firing squad in the United States in 14 years, and the ways in which it is more humane than all other execution methods.
“Lethal injection, which has the veneer of medical acceptability, has far greater risks of cruelty to a condemned person,” said law Prof. Deborah Denno of Fordham University.
The firing squad has not been challenged, and by all accounts, Utah’s executions by firing squad were carried out without problems, Denno said.
Read the entire story in The Crime Report.
