Deborah Denno is quoted in an Opelika Auburn News column finding that 3 percent of all executions were botched and lethal injections “are botched at a higher rate than any of the other methods employed since the late 19th century, 7 percent.”
“This is one of the worst botches that we’ve had,” said Deborah Denno, a lethal injection expert and law professor at Fordham Law School, speaking about the death of Clayton Lockett. “All of this was predictable and foreseeable. How many times does this have to take place?”
Read the entire Opelika Auburn News column.