Deborah Denno quoted in the Associated Press about how the disarray surrounding lethal injection in the U.S. is beginning to steer states back toward methods of execution that many had long ago deemed less humane than the needle.
Deborah Denno, a professor at Fordham Law School who has studied executions for more than two decades, called Tennessee’s law unprecedented.
“No state has gone backward, to go back in time to a prior method of execution,” she said. “For over a century, they have all moved forward.”
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