Deborah Denno comments to the Kansas City Star on the inadvertent disclosure of the identity of the compounding pharmacy that supplies Missouri with its lethal injection chemicals and the intense litigation surrounding it in the federal courts.
“Pharmacies are backing away, they gain nothing from being involved,” said Deborah Denno, a law school professor and expert on the death penalty from Fordham University. “Reputation-wise it can be incredibly damaging.”
Denno said that with states being forced to seek different and sometimes previously unused lethal injection drugs, there have been more botched executions, and more litigation like that in Missouri.
The entire Kansas City Star story ran on January 17, 2014.
