Deborah Denno speaks to the Associated Press about the decision of judges in Kentucky and California to bar their respective states from executing inmates because of problems with their lethal injection procedures.
Those decisions, rooted heavily in the law and the facts of the protocol, not the emotional details of gruesome killings, appear to be on the leading edge of how the judiciary will treat execution challenges in the future, said Fordham University law professor Deborah Denno.
“Judges are taking a more proactive, hands-on treatment of these cases,” Denno said. “It really has reverberations far beyond the state of Kentucky.”
The story appeared in the San Francisco Examiner and on KSRO News Talk on September 10, 2010.
