Deborah Denno comments to the Kansas City Star on how Missouri nearly matched the Texas in the number of death row inmates executed by lethal injection.
Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University and a national expert on death penalty issues, said the same type of challenges to drug secrecy rules have been gaining traction in other states.
“There are differences in how courts in different states are handling those,” she said.
On Wednesday, a judge in Oklahoma ruled that by keeping the source of its execution drugs secret, the state was violating the inmates’ constitutional right of due process.
Denno said she expected that decision to have reverberations around the country, and on Thursday, a judge in Texas proved her right.
The entire Kansas City Star story ran on March 29, 2014.