Deborah Denno talks to NBC News about how a shortage of lethal injection drugs has prompted lawmakers in several death-penalty states to make noise about bringing back more primitive methods of execution.
“There have been a lot of horrific electrocutions,” said Fordham Law School Professor Deborah Denno, who has studied the electric chair extensively.
“Going back in time is not a good thing.”
In a 2002 academic paper, Denno documented 19 electrocutions in the previous quarter-century that she described as botched.
“Severe burning, boiling body fluids, asphyxiation, and cardiac arrest, can cause extreme pain when unconsciousness is not instantaneous,” she wrote.
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