Deborah Denno quoted in an Associated Press story that appears in MSN News 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, including the electric chair, the firing squad and the gas chamber — methods largely abandoned a generation ago.
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.”
The entire MSN News article ran on May 24, 2014.