Deborah Denno comments to the Kansas City Star on a nationwide shortage of a key drug used to execute prisoners that left the state unable to carry out executions in 2012.
Shortages of thiopental began to crop up in 2010, according to Deborah Denno, a national expert on lethal injection issues and law professor at Fordham University in New York.
“It’s not by accident these drugs are hard to get,” Denno said. “There’s been a concerted effort by manufacturers who don’t want to be associated with this process.”
The entire Kansas City Star story ran on May 11, 2012.