Deborah Denno quoted in The Nation onThe Guardian, the Associated Press and three Missouri newspapers—in the wake of the recent botched execution in Oklahoma—to end secrecy on death penalty protocols.
It is believed to be the first time that the first amendment right of access has been used to challenge secrecy in the application of the death penalty.
Deborah Denno, an expert in execution methods at Fordham University law school in New York, said that more and more states were turning to secrecy as a way of hiding basic flaws in their procedures. “If states were doing things properly they wouldn’t have a problem releasing information—they are imposing a veil of secrecy to hide incompetence.”
Read the entire Nation article.