Deborah Denno comments to the Dayton Daily News on the Ohio prison system’s switch to a high dose of pentobarbital, a drug used to euthanize animals and as a sedative during major surgery, as the lethal drug it will use to execute condemned killers.
Law Professor Deborah Denno of Fordham University in New York, a death penalty expert, said controversies overseas about drugs being used for executions in the U.S. “speaks volumes” about how the U.S. is “isolated” in the world community about capital punishment.
“We’re relying on companies in countries that are against the death penalty” to supply the lethal drugs, she said. “With lethal injection, it’s become an ugly international issue.”
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