Deborah Denno comments to the National Journal on the mishandling of lethal injections that reflects the extraordinary and surreptitious lengths a handful of active death-penalty states are now willing to go to in order to continue their executions.
“Every time a state changes their method of execution, they lose credibility about a procedure that should be as humane as we can make it. Everything that states are doing now goes against that very grain,” Deborah Denno, a capital-punishment expert who opposes the death penalty, told National Journal last year. “They choose drugs because they are available, not because they know anything about those drugs.”
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