Deborah Denno comments to Reuters about how Ohio was the latest state in the U.S. to switch drugs for executions, after a U.S. company bowed to European Union pressure and stopped making a preferred drug.
“Ohio’s move is predictable but disturbing,” said Fordham University Law Professor Deborah W. Denno, a death penalty expert, referring to criticism of using the alternative drug. “It is regrettable that Ohio is blindly following in Oklahoma’s muddy footsteps.”
This story ran in Reuters on January 25, 2011.