Deborah Denno comments to The Tennessean about the Tennessee Supreme Court’s refusal to stop two executions in 2010.
In an abstract from a talk that she is giving on the latest lethal injection developments, Fordham University law Professor Deborah W. Denno says that despite the outcome in Baze, the Baze court’s arguments and rationales have been continuously dated and diminished by a vast array of ongoing problems with lethal injection.
These problems, Denno will tell her audience, range from the lack of availability of a “key anesthetic drug, to paltry state protocols, to questionable drug substitutes and the foreign importing of drugs to, most recently, a growing lack of uniformity among states in how they attempt to resolve such difficulties.”
This story appeared in The Tennessean (Nashville) on November 28, 2010.
