Deborah Denno quoted in Agence France-Presse, about how whether electric chairs, gas chambers or firing squad, American states that retain the death penalty are mulling a return to long-abandoned execution methods as they grapple with a shortage of lethal injection drugs.
Deborah Denno, a professor of law at Fordham University’s School of Law, believes any return to old execution methods will be difficult.
“The very reason they went to lethal injection is because electrocution wasn’t working, lethal gas wasn’t working,” she told AFP.“Politicians in so many states are starting to lose credibility,” said Fordham law expert Denno.
“How many times can you be flipping around, switching a method of execution without drawing attention to the fact we just don’t know what we’re doing?”
The entire story ran in Agence France-Presse on February 4, 2014.