Deborah Denno comments to The Guardian regarding the head of a Danish drug company who wrote to Rick Scott, the governor of Florida, to protest about the use of one of its anaesthetics in the execution of a Cuban national.
Deborah Denno, an expert in the death penalty at Fordham university law school, said the intervention by the manufacturer itself of Nembutal in writing to the Florida governor took opposition to use of the drug to a whole new level. “I don’t know how you could cast more doubt on the use of a drug than when you have the condemnation of it by its own maker,” she said.
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