Deborah Denno is featured in a Tulsa World article about Jay Chapman, the “father of lethal injection”.
According to a 2007 study by Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University School of Law, Chapman and Wiseman were not certain at the time the lethal-injection law passed “if or when lethal injection would be implemented or what drugs might be available.”
“Unfortunately, such stunning unknowns had no impact on Wiseman’s confidence in the procedure’s potential success,” Denno wrote.
“As Wiseman recounted, lethal injection (a name he said he created) had the following benefits in his mind: ‘No pain, no spasms, no smells or sounds just sleep, then death.’ “
Read the entire Tulsa World article.